Changing Places …

Changing Places by Ms Paige Turner
I’ve just returned from my fourth Cruise and Maritime lecturing cruise around the northern part of the globe. It was my third trip on board Magellan. Usually they give me Shackleton which is a nice big room to lecture in. But on this last trip to the Norwegian Fjords they shifted me to Deck 8 which was a pretty exposed place to be. (It was inside so we didn’t freeze but discussing our life stories we felt well, just a little emotionally exposed.) We got shifted to this thoroughfare as there was a block booking for a group of craft ladies who swarmed upon Shackleton where they stored their silks and threads for the duration.
I guess we were doing the same thing on deck 8: unravelling the past, knitting our brows, chasing loose threads and all the while those royal fjords drifted by – or we did. It’s difficult on board to work out whose moving and who is at a standstill.
One thing I do hope is that the Fjords’ writers got changed a little bit by enrolling on Creative Writing at Sea; that they had a parallel journey and maybe stopped and had a think. I just hope they don’t wish they could have changed places with the crafty lot in Shackleton.
Jan’s feature ‘Changing for the Better’ is published in this month’s ‘Writing Magazine’. (September)
And there is still one place left on Creative Ink’s Tuesday morning ‘Get Inspired’ course at the Fitzwilliams Centre beginning October 4th. The theme is ‘Journey’. I wonder who will take that place?
Two places left on the ‘Get that Book’ course which you can begin now as it’s assessment and a one to one. Email me.