The Guide SUNY Geneseo's Writers' Resources Guide

Story Starters:

Brainstormer  to get ideas for writing

Creative Writing Prompts  364 Prompts for Writing Stories

Five-Card Flickr  Five random pictures to generate ideas

Kerpoof  Choose a StoryLine, characters, setting, text

One Word  One word to generate writing ideas

One Hundred Best First Lines from Novels

Story Kitchen  Pick a hero, a villian and a place and then make a story

Story Starters  Spin wheels to get the elements of a story

Digital Storytelling

BitStrips  Comics in the Classroom

Dvolver  Movie Maker

Fodey  Newspaper Clipping Generator

PicLit Drag and Drop Vocabulary Generated from Topic of Picture

Storybirds create short, art-inspired stories

ZooBurst  Create 3D PopUp Books

Personal Reflection

DreamDoze  What Did You Dream about Last Night?

FutureMe Write a Letter to Yourself in the Future

Letter Pop  Create newsletter

Oh Life  helps you remember what happened

Collaborative Writing

BubbleUs Brainstorming made simple  Review

Entri Get feedback on rough drafts / Jot down ideas and share through Twitter

Google Docs Collaborative writing

LiveTyping Collaborative writing

MixedInk Collaborative writing for groups

Novlet Collaborative writing of nonlinear stories

SpiderScribe New way to brainstorm  Sample by Susan Matson

ThinkFree Online Virtual office / Edit documents in your web browser

TypeWithMe Collaborative writing

WriteBoard Sharable web-based documents

Zoho Writer Online word processor - create, connect, collaborate

Book Creation

Vocabulary and Other Sites

Bookr create a book, but nothing to prompt writing

Character Trading Cards  make trading cards for readings

Dvolver Movie Maker

Fodey Newspaper clipping generator

SpellingCity Spelling and Vocabulary Learning Activities

Tagxedo Word Clouds with Styles (that create images)

Wordle Word Clouds