Day 84 - 9/14/21 - Tue
- mainemoviepirate
- 3 hours ago
- 3 min read
Journal Entry:
“Slept some; dreamed a lot, but no recall. Up at 6:20. H/L/R, meds. Worked on Journal, Null, and typed Walking Distance.
Creeping up on 90 days in. Hard to believe; seems like years. I wonder what years will seem like… No, I don’t.
LUNCH: Chicken Sandwiches (2), one in reserve. White Rice.
More typing. Printed off the first one—doesn’t look that great. Basically hung around, didn’t get much done. The DHS lady responded. I guess I am definitely appealing the debarment. Something feels not quite right about it. I’ll give Steve [lawyer] a little more time, then file the appeal myself. Packed the Walking Distance rough draft with the Psych Cop-out and the 1st DHS email. Sending home to back-up.
SUPPER: Pork Sausages. Gross but I ate it. Got to cut down, start skipping meals again. Like in the SHU. Can’t gain weight in here.
Kind of rainy. Watched movies. Not quite 300 words, but I’m trying. Got to get writing again. Single-mindedness; don’t waste this time here. I like the Public Domain Null Idea, though it may be kind of lazy creativity (or is it?).
‘You’re in my Seat’ – Tomb Raider. The newest one, no Angelina Jolie. I liked the beginning—more of a 'real' movie than I remember of the other ones; like an indie movie, real pedestrian. But once they got to the adventure part, it turned kind of lame. I did like the actress who played Lara Croft; she fit the part. And it was good to see 'Shane' from The Shield still getting work. Hobbs & Shaw was on TV B (the Spanish TV). Caught my eye when Ryan Reynolds was on the screen; I guess it was a cameo. But it was funny. Will watch the entire movie at a later date. Real action, James Bond-type stuff.”
Notes for Day 84 (Four Years Later)
A standard day, but the important thing was the realization that Null might have much more potential than just a story I write in my head to help me sleep. It was something productive I started documenting while in the SHU because it was getting too complicated to maintain as a “head story.”
Without going into it too much, Null is mostly set in a confined space in another dimension—the word means "nothing," which is what is in this dimension. It started with one central character, Jakob, and since my time in the SHU, has grown into a huge cast. Most of the cast isn’t real—at least not as we know humans to be. Also, The Citadel, an ancient alien building the size of a city, was “revealed” to be a prison during my time in the SHU. Coincidence? I doubt it.
This is the first time I mentioned using Public Domain stories to expand the Null universe. I called it "lazy writing" back then, but I don’t think like that anymore. Right now, Null is the only new creative writing I am doing, and I don’t plan on stopping. I’m thinking of a series of Kindle books—a prequel series about Jakob and his companions' origins.
Using the Public Domain to springboard the further adventures in Null is my way of advocating for a more vibrant Public Domain, a reboot of Copyright Law, and a solution to the Orphan Works problem. My criminal case notwithstanding, this project is how I turn those legal frustrations into art.
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