Collaboration and surprise is a key component to a successful Folding Story. Essentially, each writer gets only a glimpse of a piece of the story before them, adds their own section, folds the story back up and passes it along to the next person. As each fold happens, the story moves farther away from the original idea and moves into new territory. Folding stories can also be done in online spaces but the old-fashioned paper fold works like magic in the classroom.