Inspiring places to visit -
Fiction Friday - This site offers weekly prompts on Fridays - These prompts include creative ways to create characters, dialogue, settings, etc.
Sunday Scribblings - As its name offers, there are prompts given on Sundays. This ever growing community of writers has been posting for about two years now. It is fun to read continued writing from specific authors, and you can post your writing too!
One Single Impression - still a young site - Offers poetry and picture prompts, often submitted by participants
Writer's Island - This site offers weeklyinspirational word prompts on Fridays - invites all styles of writing. It also includes some movie prompts for your writing pleasure! (A father/son are coworking the site)
Some of the Maine Writing Project leaders, like Andrea Fischer,
have been doing some great work with student staffed writing centers. Here is a
new resource for that kind of work!
Here's a helpful online resource
prepared by Rich Kent, Director of the Maine Writing Project and author of A
Guide to Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6-12:
Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6-12:
http://guest.portaportal.com/wcenters