For the past twenty years, Lin has been writing articles for newspapers and magazines on a wide variety of topics ranging from local history, literature, music, film, folklore, nature and conservation, to comic art and illustrators among many others. With an abundance of passion, he has also covered subjects as diverse as pirate radio, themed museums, country crafts, hobbies and pastimes, trench art, and first-hand accounts of the perils and pitfalls of D.I.Y.