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# The napkin fiction project
- URL: https://werd.io/the-napkin-fiction-project/
- Published: 2007-02-28T09:49:43.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:03.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

[I love stuff like this.](http://www.esquire.com/fiction/napkin-fiction/napkinproject)

*Esquire* sent 250 napkins to various writers across America, and got nearly 100 of them back, from established novelists to first-time authors. [Some of them are fantastic.](http://www.esquire.com/fiction/ESQ0207Rise)

There was a collaborative art project on the web around five years ago where people sent notebooks out, which were then filled a page at a time by successive recipients and then returned to the original owner. For the life of me I can't remember its name, but it always seemed like a neat idea.