Syracuse, New York, USA
I'm a father, HS English teacher and writer. I was weaned on the worlds built by Lucas, Harryhausen, Dini, Martin and Tolkien.
Twitter: @john_zeleznik
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By The Thousand Lives of John Zeleznik
This has been a downright epic week to be a geek. Seriously. For those of you living under a rock, yesterday the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens dropped...
By The Thousand Lives of John Zeleznik
One of the motifs on my blog this year is my desire for 2015 to be the year of the epic. I am approaching my writing this year with the...
By The Thousand Lives of John Zeleznik
To be fair, I didn't watch every episode, but I watched a lot of them...in fact I got my 6 year old daughter hooked on the show to the point...
By The Thousand Lives of John Zeleznik
One of my favorite websites to get my daily intake of nerdery/geekery is io9. If you've never been there and you make some claim to be interested in all things...
By The Thousand Lives of John Zeleznik
The 800 year old Jedi Master once uttered the words, "Size matters not." As a fantasy writer that prefers epic fantasy (as a reader and a writer) these words are...
By The Thousand Lives of John Zeleznik
I really wanted to write a blog post on research in writing and what that means, but I had another idea that uprooted that one this morning. I was hanging...
By The Thousand Lives of John Zeleznik
A few nights ago I sort of eavesdropped on a Twitter conversation between Django Wexler and Brian McClellan concerning the Hugo Award For Best Dramatic Presentation-Short Form and the unrelenting...
By The Thousand Lives of John Zeleznik
I've decided to add a new "feature" to my blog to get me to blog a little more about something I really love: movies. I'm going to do these reviews...