Yearsinreview2016

2016 Update

I was pulled in a lot of directions this year and wrote less than in years past, but a few things came together:

A year in covering the strangers on the other side of personal technology

2016 Style / Lifestyle Writing Highlights

Over the course of this year, I’ve tried to think a lot about what “lifestyle” writing means. There are so-called lifestyle magazines, which create a vision of an ideal life through an editorial voice, article text and art direction. There are lifestyle…

Year in Review 2016: A Slow-Motion Concussion

The very first thing I did in 2016 was fall on my face. Around 5am on January 1, my cat bounded into the room and insisted that it was time for him to go outside. My bed was cozy and I wasn’t at all ready to emerge into the world — the sun hadn’t…

My writing in 2016 and what I hope to do in 2017

2016 was an incredibly challenging year for me. I returned to school after a year off in order to earn my Bachelor’s Degree. I also managed to learn more about myself and how I handle adversity and setbacks in my life. And, I started my third…

My 2016 Freelancing Report: 28 Pitches Disappeared into a Black Hole

The Year in Humbling

A little over a year ago, I moved from Canada to the US. (My political timing was, uh, impeccable.) The idea was to leave the small, self-congratulatory world of Toronto magazines for the big, self-congratulatory world of New York magazines. Instead, through a series of happy accidents, I…

Tarin’s Year in Review: 2016 Bottles of Poison on the Wall

2016 tricked me into thinking it was going to be a good, productive year. I mainly expected two things: I was going to find permanent housing; our country would have a free and fair election. Welp.

Best of 2016: Freelance AF

I spent the start of 2016 in a dead-end, permalance position at a mag I love but in a department that was an odd…

Pocket Monsters, Knowing the Devil

It’s difficult to qualify a single year in the 9x-(estimates vary)-billion-dollar games industry, especially one with as diverse and entertaining an output as 2016.

What do you say about a year where most critic’s best-of lists will likely include a farming game…