{"id":707,"date":"2021-04-29T21:26:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T16:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=707"},"modified":"2021-04-29T21:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T16:26:51","slug":"la-la-la-i-cant-hear-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2021\/04\/29\/la-la-la-i-cant-hear-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;La La La &#8211; I can&#8217;t hear you!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After going through Demo Day for Launch Pad (and getting more than a little bummed about not getting a dev grant) I&#8217;ve decided to throw myself back into working on my game &#8211; which has been neglected for far too long. Marketing might not pay off immediately, but jumping into something created by my own 2 hands pays off <strong><em>now<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except when you try to work, your wife &#8211; who is also working from home &#8211; gets slammed with an absolute Suez Canal sized shipping container of work. I felt just as stuck as that boat. Can&#8217;t concentrate on tutorials with her constant zoom calls, can&#8217;t focus on what I&#8217;m working on because she often need beverages because she is non-stop talking all day long and I still have a house, decimated by two rampaging boys to clean up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to mention the cat always wants food \/ attention \/ go outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need to drown out the noise. I can&#8217;t focus otherwise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence- noise cancelling headphones. They&#8217;ve been a godsend when I just need to <strong>focus<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve been so distracted by things that any moment of quiet gives me the ability to get something done &#8211; which these days, is priceless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"826\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bookcov-er-826x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bookcov-er-826x1024.jpg 826w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bookcov-er-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bookcov-er-768x952.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bookcov-er-1239x1536.jpg 1239w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bookcov-er.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The other big thing that was a boost, was the release of this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had done an informal interview with Todd over Twitter &#8211; and initially he thought this would just be a blog entry. But then he&#8217;d ask a question. And then another. And I&#8217;d go off on tangents (a huge part of my chapter is focused on my time in NYC and post 9-11 life) &#8211; and suddenly he says that he&#8217;s making it into a book. And so he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year I was honored to illustrate the cover of a book &#8211; this year I have a whole chapter in one. Next year?? Either a whole book about me; or I gotta write one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After going through Demo Day for Launch Pad (and getting more than a little bummed about not getting a dev grant) I&#8217;ve decided to throw myself back into working on my game &#8211; which has been neglected for far too long. Marketing might not pay off immediately, but jumping into something created by my own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2021\/04\/29\/la-la-la-i-cant-hear-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;La La La &#8211; I can&#8217;t hear you!&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}