The Scholastic website has an area called "Writing with Writers" that might be of interest to practitioners and learners because it pulls back the veil on the writing process.

The progression of activities and sequencing of tasks (along with insights by known authors)

• Jane Yolen,
  
• Virginia Hamilton, and
  
• Jack Prelutsky,
  

...makes Writing with Writers a valuable tool for most learners. A bonus is that learners can get stories published here, too, so the writing is an authentic exper...

Wacky Web Tales is a collection of "Auto-Creative Writing" activities from Houghton Mifflin.

Wacky Web Tales...

• is designed for younger learners but has the potential to be used with all age groups.
• asks learners to fill-in a blank form using words to make parts of speech prompts.

The words the learners write into the blank form are the used in an automatically generated short story. This online resource could be...

• used by learners to practice identifying the parts of speech;
• used by...

Five Card Stories is an experimental web site designed to foster visual thinking.

How does it work? Users...

• are dealt five random photographs for each of five draws,
  
• select one each time to add to their selection of images; they will probably find it easier if the first image they select is of a person or animal, which can then be the main character in their story.
  
• take the 5 images to tell a story; illustrated by them...
  • give it a title,
    
  • add a name (it doesn't have to be your rea...