From the Town Hall Seattle web site, "What happens when readers and an author meet around a table to collaborate on a new piece of fiction? The second in a series of regular Scratch Nights (free-form, anything-goes events where artists of all stripes have freedom to experiment in front of a live audience) is the brainchild of Town Hall Scholar-In-Residence Lesley Hazleton. The goal: to edit a new piece of fiction using crowdsourcing and direct engagement. Inspired by the TEDGlobal 2012 conference on Radical Openness, Nassim Assefi attempts to harness collective wisdom to inform her novel during National Novel Writing Month in November. Making transparent the opaque process of writing using wiki-like technology, Assefi beta-tests her crowdsourced novel-revising experiment with an intimate audience at Town Hall first, questioning what it means to write a book in the digital age, blurring the lines between writer and reader, editor and audience."