Why New Year Resolutions Never Work

Hello and Happy New Year.  I bet many of you are thinking about this years New Years resolution.  Well I'm hear to tell you that most likely you wont follow through with it.
New Year resolutions have been around for a long time.  Every year people look back on the past year and will say things they will change about themselves and their actions for the next year.  However, most of the time people don't actually go through with their promises.  They say they wont do this or that next year but end up doing exactly that.  This is because for one people will forget that they made the resolution.  I mean this is just something you thought up in the middle of the night.  It's even worse for people who get black out drunk on New Years because they barely remember what they did let alone a single sentence saying what they wont do the next year.  Another reason people don't go through with their resolution is simply because they don't have the motivation to do it.  Since there are no real consequences for not going through with a New Years resolution most people just put it aside or never go through with it.
Now there are some people who follow their New Years religions.  I believe if you were to actually remember your New Years resolution and find a way to motivate yourself you may pull it off.  However, until then you are like every other person who fails at going through with it

Get rejected like a boss

     Everything you love will reject you or die. This was me paraphrasing the author Chuck Palahniuk. No truer words have been said by an author of such questionable fame.
Rejection is impossible to avoid. No matter what you do(or don't do in some cases) rejection will come. That makes the question not when will rejection come, but what will you do now.
What now?
This is a question everyone has asked themselves at least once. This question is even more common among writer. We have that special book we have been planning forever. You finally get off your butt.(some writers ,especially me, are lazy) and start to write it. Day in and day out you pour our heart and soul into it. You hand it to your best friend and ask him to read it. He loves it. Then you send it off to a publisher. You wait and wait. Then the editor sends you a rejection email that says you suck.
What now?
Rejection just hit you in the face. What do you do?
There is only one thing you can do. You take the rejection as a challenge. Then you get better. Rejection is a challenge. That is all. Remember that. Next time bring out something even better. Let all of your rejections push you higher it. Remember a rejection is merely a challenge. John Kennebrew signing off.

Merry Christmas from the Other Side

Id just like to say Merry Christmas to all of my faithful readers who have stuck with me so far.  Oh and Happy Holidays to those who don't celebrate Christmas.  From the other side id like to thank you for hearing my ramblings for this long.  Have wonderful Christmas.

Reruns for Christmas

Well my wonderful reader, we have arrived at the time of the year known as Christmas. Everyone is taking some time out of the year to spend time with his family. Some people may go out to the movies and see the vast variety of films available to watch. Once they go to the box office they may notice a trend. Hollywood is fond of sequels, prequels, spin offs, and reboots. Original ideas are not the coming to the big screen as often as they used too.

After visiting the-numbers.com, I saw that out of the top ten grossing movies of 2015 six were sequels, prequels, spin offs, and reboots. That is a important piece to the puzzle. Sequels make money. If an idea worked once, why not do it again? It has a dedicated fan base and sequels have previously done well in the market. Making a sequel to a popular movie is low risk.

Hollywood is risk adverse. A billion dollars can quickly go down the drain if a movie flops. The times have changed. Movies cost more to produce. Less people go to the movies now compared to the early days of cinema.

Why?  The invention of the television and the internet. Going to the movies used to be an integral part of American life. The only place to see relatively cheap entertainment of that movies could provide were the theaters. Now we have televisions with over one thousand channels of mind numbing content. No need to go to the movies every other weekend. Going to the theaters is something special you do maybe four times a year. The brains behind Hollywood know this.

That is why marketing for movies is so important. Marketing costs money. Money is an investment. As we can see Hollywood does not want to risk it's money. When money becomes the most important factor in the creation of fiction, originality takes the back seat.  So we say goodbye to new awesome movies and have to settle with the same one retold once again.

Im Back!

Hello my faithful readers.  Did you miss me?  Well the wait is over because the prodigal son returns.  Starting Tuesday I will be back to the regular schedule of two posts a week.  So boot up your device once again and come back to the OtherSide.