Guess who totally forgot about her monthly dares until just now? (I’ll give you a hint: it wasn’t you.)

It has been a very busy month thus far, between setting up Reveries Co., editing, writing, and planning (lottttsss of planning!), and some things have just slipped through the cracks!

However, here I am with my dares post! Yay! Now we can truly be in September!

August 2018 Dares

Reading

• Get through at least most of your review copies. Failed.
  • Eh. No.
  • Look, I read like … one and a half.
  • Reading has not been a priority.
• Don’t accept any more review copies. Check.
  • Well. Only just the one. ?
  • I’m bad at this.
• Catch up on your own alpha/beta projects. Ehhhhhh …
  • Okay, so, I am mostly caught up with one, not at all caught up with another, and finished with a different one.
  • Whoo-hoo?
  • I’m done some critiquing through YWW, too.

Books Read …

I was … busy.

The books I did read were awesome, though! How to Market a Book was of course quite excellent and info packed, A Place in His Heart was a cool and unique story, From the Distance was also great, and so was The Memory Tree (in a different way).

(And Goldfish Secrets was fantastic, too!)

Writing

• Get through the first half of Beyond Her Calling‘s betas! Check!
  • YAY! Something more than accomplished!
• Finish my last edits and proofreads of Once a Stratton. Check!
  • Well, I did finish … then …
  • I still need to go through it one more time.
• Finish Before a Fall. Failed.
  • Oops?
  • I really lost my inspiration for this story.

Blogging

• Guest post at least three times. Failed.
  • Yeahhhh …
• Put out quality posts thrice a week. Kinda.
  • I did most of the time …

Life

• Read the Bible. Kinda.
  • I did most of the time, a’right, mate?
  • This is a hard thing to remember to do …
• ATTEND A WRITER’S CONFERENCE! Check!
  • Hey, look, I did something!

What’s happened since my last dares post?

• Went hiking!

  • Climbed a mountain.
  • It was cool.

• Lottttssss of kittens.

  • Right now we have five cats (Sinatra, Sparrow, and the three littles).
  • They’re so adorable! I want to keep them all …

• Reveries Co.!

  • Got the idea of the eighth and now it’s a business plan and over twenty people have applied for a position.
  • Cool, right?

• The conference, obviously.

  • More here.

• These blog posts

  • Orphans of the West Blog Tour Begins (giveaway still open!)
  • Goldfish Secrets Launched!
  • How much does self-publishing cost?
  • 2019: Year of the Relaunch
  • Writers: Push Introversion Aside for a Day
  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

September 2018 Dares

Reading

• More ARCs.
  • Yup.
• More Not Getting ARCs.
  • Yup.
• Less Delaying.
  • Nope.
  • I mean, yup!

Writing

• Complete Beyond Her Calling‘s second to last edits.
  • That means getting it to the editor.
• Finish the first draft of the Souls Astray‘s outline.
  • Start-to-finish, “this is what is happening here” stuff.
  • And maybe figuring out Adele some more. #hashandrehash
• Do one last polish of Once a Stratton.
  • LOL.
  • Okay, really, I can do this!

Blogging

• Be consistent.
  • I really cannot handle more this month, haha.

Also, I have over 900 followers now! Yay!

Life

• Survive.
  • That’s a good goal, right?

What Will Be Happening in September?

• Er … lots of things which … already happened?

  • Look. I have a busy life.
  • So yes, we are more than halfway through

• ME NOT DOING SCHOOL.

  • BOOM!
  • YOU ALL HAVE SUCKY LIVES!
  • ENJOY YOUR SLAVERY!

• AWANAs, band, etc.

  • All the good things!

• Work!

  • Working five days a week for the first time.
  • (Part time, but whatever.)

Now, I do apologize for this post being so brief. However, at this point I have 6 million things to do … so I’d better get on those!

I do realize I’m seventeen days late. Shame on me! I really suck at remembering what to post when. ? I do have a schedule, but eh. Gets forgotten.

TTFN!

~Kellyn Roth~

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p.s.

What did you do in August? ? Or September; either way. What are your goals for the rest of this month? Is there anything you just have to finish before October?