{"id":7999,"date":"2024-05-10T22:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T05:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2024-05-10T22:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T05:04:49","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-day-one-three-one-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/10\/twenty-twenty-four-day-one-three-one-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty-four day one three one]: celebration!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-8.43.50-PM-600x367.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8008\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-8.43.50-PM-600x367.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-8.43.50-PM-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-8.43.50-PM-768x470.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-8.43.50-PM-1536x940.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-8.43.50-PM-2048x1254.png 2048w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-8.43.50-PM-640x392.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yay! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/thinkinginkpress\/the-neurodiversiverse-alien-encounters-a-sci-fi-anthology\">The Neurodiversiverse Kickstarter<\/a> 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&#8217;re trying to publicize it! A shoutout to Cat Rambo, who graciously let us do that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kittywumpus.net\/blog\/2024\/05\/09\/guest-post-neurodiverse-alien-encounters-in-the-neurodiversiverse-by-anthony-francis\/\">guest blogpost<\/a>! Let me shout back, with the story card we came up with for Cat&#8217;s story, &#8220;Scary Monsters, Super Creeps&#8221;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cat-Rambo-600x338.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8000\" style=\"width:716px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cat-Rambo-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cat-Rambo-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cat-Rambo-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cat-Rambo-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cat-Rambo-640x360.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cat-Rambo.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that we&#8217;ve met our funding goal, we&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/thinkinginkpress\/the-neurodiversiverse-alien-encounters-a-sci-fi-anthology\/posts\/4098448\">announced our stretch goals<\/a>, which include cool things like bookmarks and postcards and, if we really stretch, an audiobook of the anthology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Stretch-Bookmarks-v1-600x400.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8002\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Stretch-Bookmarks-v1-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Stretch-Bookmarks-v1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Stretch-Bookmarks-v1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Stretch-Bookmarks-v1-640x427.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Stretch-Bookmarks-v1.png 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But we&#8217;ve also been posting about our process, talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/thinkinginkpress\/the-neurodiversiverse-alien-encounters-a-sci-fi-anthology\/posts\/4096547\">how we selected our stories for the anthology<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/thinkinginkpress\/the-neurodiversiverse-alien-encounters-a-sci-fi-anthology\/posts\/4094989\">how we organized them into our current table of contents<\/a> &#8211; which required setting up a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanban_board\">Kanban board<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Airtable\">Airtable<\/a> to help us organize it quickly, efficiently, and, most of all, understandably. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/toc-airtable-image-600x351.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8005\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/toc-airtable-image-600x351.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/toc-airtable-image-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/toc-airtable-image-640x374.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/toc-airtable-image.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Airtable is a system that looks a lot like a spreadsheet, except it&#8217;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 &#8220;cards&#8221; organized into &#8220;stacks&#8221; by a given field &#8211; and as you move cards about in the stacks, the field changes with it. This helps visualize the flow of, well, many things &#8211; including stories in the editing pipeline, or stories in the table of contents; I&#8217;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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-4.04.09\u202fPM-546x800.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8006\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-4.04.09\u202fPM-546x800.png 546w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-4.04.09\u202fPM-273x400.png 273w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-4.04.09\u202fPM-768x1124.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-4.04.09\u202fPM-640x937.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-10-at-4.04.09\u202fPM.png 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re proud of the table of contents &#8211; but also, pleased with the process that got us there, and hope other people find it as useful as we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So please, go check those posts out, and maybe even help spread the word so we reach our stretch goals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,248,220,202],"tags":[274,4,308,305],"class_list":["post-7999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-promotions","category-technique","category-writing","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-dragon-writers","tag-neurodiversity","tag-the-neurodiversiverse","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8010,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}