Use a one sentence summary to develop a course specific goal. Appropriate feedback is immediate, specific, corrective, positive. Assessment techniques can be used to improve teaching and student learning. Multi-user interface programs allow people to interact simultaneously and, if you choose, anonymously. These programs would be very helpful in creative writing classes.
Students can post their work anonymously and judge each others' work anonymously.
Conflict could be reduced and a sense of freedom could increase. One could create a scenario based MOO within which students could interact, as in a simulation. They could be used to get anonymous student evaluation of teaching. It is possible to teach students skills that will help them succeed. Motivation does not come naturally.