Writing Resources

There were two links in today’s SurfNetKids newslet­ter that I thought y’all might like:

Cre­ative Writ­ing Prompts
http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/
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Deliv­er­ing on the promise of their title, Cre­ative Writ­ing Prompts serves fresh ideas to get your pen to paper, or fin­gers to key­board. “Write a sto­ry about an emp­ty glass.” “Begin a sto­ry with the line, ‘The clock winked.’ ” In addi­tion to the near­ly dai­ly online prompts (which are archived back to June), the site offers a free down­load of Write Sparks! Lite, a Win­dows pro­gram that deliv­ers writ­ing prompts right from your
desktop.

Diarist.net
http://diarist.net/
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“Whether you call us diarists, jour­nalers, or blog­gers, we’ve got every­thing you need to know all about the peo­ple who tell all.” Best clicks are the Spark writ­ing prompts (look for the link in the low­er right-hand cor­ner), the Diarist.net Guide (a how-to for wannabees), and the col­lec­tion of celebri­ty blogs. The list of jour­nal­ing hosts is good, but since it is sev­er­al years old, the new­er blog­ging tools are notice­ably absent. And when brows­ing the direc­to­ry of diaries, please keep in mind that not all per­son­al jour­nals are appro­pri­ate for young kids.