Thinking of a title for my last installment of Zombie World Order, The Trilogy is difficult.
For starters, so many good titles have been taken. Also, I feel like it can be done. I mean, I don’t think I’ll match “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” That title is just inspired.
The final book is starting to take shape, so it’s becoming an issue. I bit the bullet and wrote the ending, and it came together pretty well. I don’t know what these people are going to do, so I have to stop at Three. I never want them to become predictable.
Zombie World Order is three books, or three stages. In the first one, the issue is personal. Marie has become selfish and cold due to anger and the pursuit of self-preservation. Once she defeats her nemesis, she has no focus. Her lack of direction is dangerous, because of the Zombies, but also because lack of direction is, in general, dangerous. When she experiences empathy for David, there is a certain amount of healing that takes place within her. She begins to understand that her act of revenge served a larger and more important purpose.
Part Two was fun to write, at least in retrospect. It deals with her assault on the lords of temporal reality, arms dealers, bankers, and politicians. She forms a nucleus of committed people to assist her. It deals with physical survival as the ultimate goal. Marie uses people, and then experiences anguish and guilt when they fall. She is losing her alienation and rejoining humanity, after a series of bitter betrayals.
Part Three is not yet published, but it about the spiritual enemies of Humanity. Marie faces her greatest fear to save two of her friends, one of whom betrayed her. While in Part Two she didn’t save people from the consequences of their poor choices, in Part Three, she makes the attempt. It’s about forgiveness, even redemption.
Part Three has not been fun to write. This is a dark book. I started it once and then started all over again. After I finished Part Two, The Defense Authorization Bill was signed, and if you aren’t upset about the repeal of Posse Comitatus, you probably should be. A large part of Part Two (Dead To Rights) was about a conspiracy to overturn this very Bill by a Luciferian New World Order.
Occasionally, one feels as though one is tapping into the collective subconsciousness. I probably should have just wrote something and published it without the pressure of trying to really write something relevant. However, as chaotic as the book seems right now, I am attempting to make it a fairly disciplined story, with decent pacing etc. I am in the end game of getting it done, in the sense I know where I’m going with it. This seems really obvious, but a book has a beginning, middle, and end. Kurt Vonnegut said every line in a short story should either develop a character or advance the plot, and I think this is a good rule for a story of any length.
Anyway, it’s going to be about a hundred thousand words, which will make the whole trilogy about two hundred and thirty thousands words. I have commissioned a cover from a trained graphic artist whose work I like and who happens to be a relative. Having written two of these before, I know what it takes to finish it, and in a way, the hard part is over.
I wrote an ending. The ending rules the book.
We did not pay close attention when we purchased a car, and the title says rebuilt salvage/damaged on the title, which we noticed after the fact. Now we need to transfer the title. The registration office said something about form VTR-61 which is a rebuilt affadavit. We didn’t do any work to the vehicle, is this something we need to have filled out or can we just bring proof of insurance, title application, and id in to transfer title? Thanks for any help you can give me.
Hi Susanne,
I appreciate the trust and confidence you are placing in me, but I must inform you for real legal and professional assistance, you are of course best served by experts.Triple A has always been okay, in my experience.
However, you might desire the fractured, unvarnished take I can provide, so here goes-I have read the “Russian” mob often will flip the titles on salvage cars until the trail is much more difficult to trace, if there is such a thing as an ethnically “Russian” mob. I only know I read it someplace.
This leads me to believe the original seller of the salvage car has the onus to fill out the required paperwork, and thereafter it is upon the buyer and seller to be aware of the vehicle’s troubled history as the dictated by the ethics of the seller and the gullibility of the buyer. In other words, whatever legal loophole the so called Russian mob was using to “cleanse” the title has probably not been closed by our rather corrupt legislative branch.
I could be wrong, however, if the mob was using unethical title transfer businesses to help them avoid the required paperwork.
In the future, I would take advantage of free Internet services to run the VIN number of the vehicle you are considering purchasing. It is my belief the salvage history can be obtained through this.
Whatever the case, even if you can get away with it, you must weigh the karmic considerations of selling a salvage vehicle to an unsuspecting private citizen (no car lot will fall for this) against how desperate your financial situation is. May the gentle Buddha wende thee on thy way.