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Call it micro-fiction in a collaborative way. Start your own story or jump into someone else's with a word limit of 1,024 characters only. Also, you don't need to follow the stories; you can insert events into the narrative as sort of a prequel.

Scriffon is a simple service for writing and publishing online. Scriffon isn't a blogging platform, it's a writing platform. That means that you cannot edit the layout or navigation on the page on which your writing is published. Each writing that you publish is given it's own url. You can go back and edit your writing even after it has been published. If you want to you can use multiple pen names under your Scriffon account name too.

"Simple. You'll see one word at the top of the following screen. You have sixty seconds to write about it. Click go and the page will load with the cursor in place. Don't think. Just write"

"telescopictext.org is an experimental tool for creating expanding texts. "

Write regularly on prompts and topics that interest you. Receive corrections from Cambridge-qualified specialists. Receive personalized writing tips and track your progress. Read others' work and learn from their mistakes

This is a great tool for analyzing students writings. Hemingway highlights long and complex sentences and common errors. It also use different code colours to show you the areas in your writing that you need to work on , for instance if you see a yellow highlight, shorten the sentence or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic. Phrases in green have been marked to show passive voice and adverbs are helpfully shown in blue. Get rid of them and pick verbs with force instead.

StoryToolz provides you with a set of tools to work on your stories. Story Idea for instance generates starters to use in your stories, Cliche Buster allows you to find the instantiations of cliches in your passages. Other tools that StroyToolz provide include : Readability, Word Count meter, Random Conflicts, and many more.

Quill provides free writing, grammar, and vocabulary activities to middle and high school students.

Spell Up is a fun new Google Chrome experiment. Spell Up is a game in which you hear a prompt to spell a word then have to speak into your laptop or Chromebook to see the word spelled on your screen.