Month: April 2025

Over the weekend I went to a party at a cabin out in the middle of the woods. I went on a hike with a friend and he was a little concerned we would get lost and I then talked a bunch of big talk about how I grew up wandering around the woods and never got lost, you don’t have to worry with me blah blah blah. Then we went out walking and started enjoying it and I guess we walked a lot farther than we realized and sure…

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I got a marketing email from Amazon a couple days ago that said that some of my books were eligible to be turned into an audiobook using AI voice. I turned three of them into audiobooks almost immediately. One of the only times a marketing email was actually effective on me.https://www.audible.com/search?searchAuthor=Kalin+RingkvistThe other three were not eligible because they did not have table of contents, so right now it’s just my short story collections that have audio versions. I went through The Pioneers and gave it a Table of Contents and…

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I had some really difficult stuff I wanted to talk about, like war and death, and how when I was a kid, I wanted to, like countless other boys, join the military and just kill kill kill in a sociopathic orgy of suffering, and how that horrifying perspective that I had as a child eventually led me to go totally the opposite and become devoted to non-violence, de-escalation and turning swords into plowshares.But instead, I figured I’d talk about something less intense: fat shaming. I feel like I need like…

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Haven’t written in a while, cuz of like a weird fear, I’m trying to wrap my brain around this, like why do I resist sitting down and writing in this journal? It’s not quite like dread, it’s like this laziness, I just want to sit in front of the TV and watch my stories. Why is is it so hard to force myself to sit down and start writing? If I didn’t enjoy it, it would make sense, if I didn’t get value out of this it would make sense.…

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