Victoria Fann
Victoria’s twenty years of writing experience runs the gamut from short stories and essays to plays and screenplays. In the tradition of Joyce Maynard and Anna Quindlan, she writes about issues that effect us all: education, relationships, raising children, women’s issues, the changing business world, creativity, spirituality etc. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers throughout the country including woman of power, KIDstoday, Raising Children, The Daily Record, The Star Ledger and Newsweek, among others. Add to that an adventurous life filled with travel, business ownership, and a deep exploration into psychology, philosophy and religion, and one can see how her writing -- an eclectic blend of opinion, literary reference, personal experience, and hard news research -- has taken shape.
In addition to writing, she enjoys helping others find their writing voice. In 1989, she founded Women Who Write, and three years later, she founded The Somerset Hills Writers Salon. Since that time, she has taught writing classes and workshops for both children and adults using many of the techniques developed in those writing groups.
Currently, she contributes to a number of online blogs and has her own blog, Blessed Madness.
In addition to writing, she enjoys helping others find their writing voice. In 1989, she founded Women Who Write, and three years later, she founded The Somerset Hills Writers Salon. Since that time, she has taught writing classes and workshops for both children and adults using many of the techniques developed in those writing groups.
Currently, she contributes to a number of online blogs and has her own blog, Blessed Madness.
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Articles by Victoria Fann
August 20, 2007
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the “truth” one could still bare...
July 22, 2007
As the saying goes, life is not about what happens to us, but how we react to it. I would go a step further and say that life is about what we do with what happens to us. How we see the crises or transitions in our lives and how we ultimately frame them are crucial to the benefits we eventually reap...
April 04, 2007
The timing of your child's teenager years with your own mid-life crisis is no accident, especially if you had children young. If your child has reached his or her teenage years, it means that he/she has been hanging around your life for quite some time. It's also a time when something stirs and awak...
March 26, 2007
When I was fourteen, I was one of those teenagers parents and teachers hate. I was arrogant, disrespectful, and bad-tempered; I cut school, took drugs and disrupted my classes at school; I hitchhiked, hung out with my friends, obsessed about boys, and listened to loud, raunchy music.
That was o...
March 23, 2007
Two months before his high school graduation, my son decided not to graduate with the senior class. Mind you, these were his peers, friends, and classmates that he had spent the last seven years with (counting middle school). The decision to leave this upper middle class suburban high school, ranked...
March 21, 2007
Simone de Beauvoir in her timeless and classic book, The Second Sex, spoke for thousands of women imprisoned by the shackles of domesticity when she wrote, “Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made cle...
March 20, 2007
“We can no longer educate your son.” said the director of M’s school.
I swallowed the rusty metal rage that lay on my tongue. The room stank with nervous silence as she spoke. The group of teachers and special ed experts around the table simply stared, looking silly with their adult bodies cramme...