Yay! The Neurodiversiverse Kickstarter funded, with two and a half days to go! And it has been amazing, after a month of slow but steady growth, that the Kickstarter continues to now rapidly fund even as we’re trying to publicize it! A shoutout to Cat Rambo, who graciously let us do that guest blogpost! Let me shout back, with the story card we came up with for Cat’s story, “Scary Monsters, Super Creeps”!
Now that we’ve met our funding goal, we’ve announced our stretch goals, which include cool things like bookmarks and postcards and, if we really stretch, an audiobook of the anthology.
But we’ve also been posting about our process, talking about how we selected our stories for the anthology and how we organized them into our current table of contents – which required setting up a Kanban board in Airtable to help us organize it quickly, efficiently, and, most of all, understandably.
Airtable is a system that looks a lot like a spreadsheet, except it’s actually a database under the hood, enabling you to build different views of the same data; a Kanban board is one such view, with rows turned into “cards” organized into “stacks” by a given field – and as you move cards about in the stacks, the field changes with it. This helps visualize the flow of, well, many things – including stories in the editing pipeline, or stories in the table of contents; I’m even using it for tracking the writing of new stories. But for now, the most important thing is that it enabled us to put together this:
We’re proud of the table of contents – but also, pleased with the process that got us there, and hope other people find it as useful as we did.
So please, go check those posts out, and maybe even help spread the word so we reach our stretch goals!
-the Centaur
