I like using this site when I am trying to write poetry and lacking inspiration. Sometimes finding a rhyme first helps me generate ideas about what I want to write about.
This is an amazing site by Jennifer Myers that has a lot of great step-by-step ideas about teaching language arts effectively in the elementary classroom. It includes things like reading and writing workshops.
A really cool (a bit of an emotional wringer) exercise involves imagining a
particularly tense, heated scene, maybe an argument you had with
someone.Now write about what happened from the other person's
p.o.v.
matic writing
can be a good exercise to dust off some inner cobwebs and stimulate the
imagination. Just start writing with the first thing that pops into your head,
and don't stop until your brain runs out of words.
This is a forum in which one member asked for some good creative writing exercises. Other users responded with some great exercises, ways to generate ideas, and ways to kick writer's block.
Jodi Picoult is my favorite author. This site offers a lot of cool links to her interviews videos, news, etc. It also offers discussion questions for each of her 15 novels.