Start by just going to www.twiddla.com . It'll start you a new session with it's own address. You can give that address to anybody and then they can write on there.
It was fun and easy and there was no sign-up or accounts or what-all. I figured I'd let the program speak for itself...

Here are some more examples and explanations, click to enlarge. The first screenshot is pretty much what appears as soon as you open a Twiddla session.



The arrows I drew pointing to the "draw tool" and the "grid tool" are no longer accurate since I opened the "text" tool, sorry. But they'll appear there if you hit "draw".