Widgets to Cure Writer's Block . . .

. . . (IF you believe in such a thing as Writer's Block . . . and/or Widgets). 

This site is one of my favs:
languageisavirus.com

It's full of writing prompts and exercises to get you rolling if you feel you've stopped rolling or if you have never ever been rolling and wish to get yourself started right away.  Among many other things, it has a couple of awesome little gadgets: The Poetry Generator and the Haiku-a-Tron, which both create automatically generated poetry (?) from a massive word database.  Even if the automatic generation doesn't create a masterpiece, it can often times create a fabulous line or phrase that you can take your own way, in search of your own masterpiece.   

An example from the Haiku-a-Tron:

coughing crystal austere
milky watercolor ghost bigbirdyellow translator
strange enfold   

 (milky watercolor ghost???  fabulous!)

. . . The truth is that any site which upholds William S. Burroughs and sticks his ever-awesomely-creepy face all over the place HAS to be cool.  Dig it?

Unsure who William S. Burroughs is?  He's a bizarro Beatnik writer who accidently shot his wife in the head (in his younger years, of course).  He was obessesed with sex, outer space, and, later, his dreams.  I could say more, but instead . . . here's an example of his writing ("Mother and I Would Like to Know"): http://www.evergreenreview.com/100/fiction/burroughs2.html

Here's a link to an interesting, but breif, bio: http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/william_s_burroughs.html

You are a creative writer and not allowed to be offended by that which hangs on the edge (in fact, you should be fascinated by it).  However, I'll state it anyway: Read and investigate Mr. Burroughs at your own risk.