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Dianne Clarence With roots as a teen-columnist for an Interior BC newspaper, writing has been a steady and driving force in the life of Dianne Clarence, finding expression in poetry, newsletters, essays, short stories, and an emerging novel. Her award-winning work, as a Registered Nurse and as a firefighter/emergency medical responder, fuels creativity and sparks passion. A member of the BC Federation of Writers and the WordStorm Society of the Arts, she enjoys spoken-word events on Vancouver Island, especially Nanaimo’s WordStorm. Di’s poetry and flash fiction has appeared in Fireworks III, Island Writer and Ascent Aspirations, literary magazines and in a chapbook of Rivendell poets, Simple Praise, edited by Patrick Lane (Leaf Press).
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“Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.”
Martin Ritt
Cerebration is the antithesis of passion.
As an able scholar, I am immensely stimulated and satisfied by the process of research, critical thought, new ideas, conclusions and questions culminating in creation of an essay or thesis. I have written many over the course of two disparate careers and ten years of post-secondary education. Scholarly inquiry and composition is a piece of cake compared to creative writing.
Most writers are concerned with the art and passion of living. I am no different. My writing process starts with a moment of truth, an image, an epiphany, sometimes a rant. Because I believe material that is overly cerebral loses its impact, I seek simple images, words and rhythms that bring the reader out of the head and into the somatic, the sensual - the passionate - experience of life.
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Protection Island is a modern-day fantasy island, a short ten-minute ferry ride across Nanaimo Harbour. So close to the hustle of the city, we are a quiet, forested community of approximately 450 people, where bicycles and golf carts outnumber cars. Almost every home borders the ocean or one of the nine green parks. We are surrounded by nature's wonder in the skies and in the
ocean. I commute to work, year-round, by boat. I am so fortunate to live on the edge of the ocean, facing Nanaimo. I can never decide whether it's more breath-taking during the day or at night. Sometimes I imagine I see Harvey or his wife, Sharon, peering through their telescope at me and I wave.
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Killer Whales Approach Gallows Point
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Twilight on the Harbour
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Pod 13 at Gallows Point
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WRITING EXCERPTS FROM ONE SWEET RIDE
Behold
the robust pithivier,
untamed cousin to the tart.
Aaacch, gut!
- From: “Peasants’ Pithivier”
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