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Eight Bells: Jean Bigelow

Posted onNovember 30, 2017November 30, 2017AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

Jean Bigelow was a force to be reckoned with. Read More …

CategoriesSailing, Team buildingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, Eight Bells, Jean Bigelow, Woods Hole

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Salting my Stories

Posted onNovember 30, 2017November 21, 2017AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

Fiction with a large dose of salt tastes best to me. Read More …

CategoriesFiction, WritingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, Island Shell Game, salt, sea, writing

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Gratitude: My Top 5

Posted onNovember 23, 2017November 21, 2017AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

Happy Thanksgiving! Here are the five things I’m most grateful for this year. Read More …

CategoriesSeasonsTagsCarol Newman Cronin, gratitude, Thanksgiving

Ed and Carol in Snipe 1994. Photo: Onne van der Wal

Fast Eddy, Pushy Dave: Personal Story Power

Posted onNovember 16, 2017November 14, 2022AuthorCarol Newman Cronin3 Comments

Interviewing a friend leads to a very personal—and extremely well-received—magazine story. Read More …

CategoriesOlympics, Sailing, Snipe, WritingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, Ed Adams, Sailing World

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Book Review: Manuscript Makeover

Posted onNovember 9, 2017November 30, 2017AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

Manuscript Makeover by Elizabeth Lyons fell into my lap at just the right time. Read More …

CategoriesEditing, Fiction, Review, WritingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, editing, Elizabeth Lyons, Manuscript Makeover, revision

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Dumpster Filling and Diving

Posted onNovember 2, 2017October 24, 2017AuthorCarol Newman Cronin1 Comment

When revising, a dumpster can be quite inspiring. Read More …

CategoriesEditing, WritingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, dumpster, editing, revising

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The Trump Card

Posted onOctober 26, 2017October 26, 2017AuthorCarol Newman Cronin1 Comment

You can read the background of this piece in Seahorse Byline: Sign of Success. This story originally published in the October 2017 issue of Seahorse Magazine and is reprinted here with permission.  In January 2017 two new ‘chiefs’ came to power in the Read More …

CategoriesOlympics, Sailing, WritingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, Malcolm Page, Seahorse

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Haulout Season

Posted onOctober 19, 2017October 11, 2017AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

Hauling boats is an end-of-summer ritual in New England, and always bittersweet. Read More …

CategoriesSailing, SeasonsTagsboats, Carol Newman Cronin, Fish, haulout, Herreshoff, Marlin, Matsya

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Caribbean: What Happens Now?

Posted onOctober 12, 2017October 4, 2017AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

A trifecta of hurricanes swept our favorite islands clean of boats, houses, and leaves. What happens now? Read More …

CategoriesTravel, WeatherTagsCaribbean, Carol Newman Cronin, hurricanes, islands

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Writing Consistent Characters: Devilish Details

Posted onOctober 5, 2017September 15, 2017AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

Characters often come and go as I get distracted by other things. How then do they maintain such consistency in their smallest quirks? Read More …

CategoriesFiction, WritingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, details, fiction, words, writing

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