nolaowai.de http://127.0.0.1:8023 en About this website. http://127.0.0.1:8023/?q=node/1 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This web-site contains much of the writings of Stephen C. Van Wyck. It is a &quot;catch-basket&quot; of various genres -- travel writing, living in Africa and China, poems, articles, educational curriculum material, and short stories. It is an attempt to share one man&#039;s writing with whoever might want to read it. </p> <p> A number of factors have brought this web-site about: </p> <p> --I am a writer, and also a &quot;pack-rat&quot; (that is, I store away many things). I like to observe the world around me, using &quot;first-cut&quot;, unedited prose. I prefer to write by hand, or use primitive &quot;word-processing&quot; typewriters, rather than computers. </p> <p> --I have lived a very varied and multi-lingual existence, and therefore had much to observe and write about. </p> <p> --It is very hard to &quot;get published&quot; at all, and almost impossible to get published on one&#039;s own terms. However, the Internet, and &quot;blogs&quot; and web-sites have given everyone a voice... even if it is only one small voice among thousands of others. I do not chase fame, or money, but I do like the &quot;power of distribution&quot; -- the ability to reach many readers -- which the Internet is able to do. </p> <p> --I too have a voice, and I want to share what I have seen with others. </p> <p> Over the years, I have collected a lot of writing, which was not edited, put away in steel file-boxes, dated, and then left in the dark for many years. As individual texts, it is not special, but taken as a whole, I feel there is something useful to share. I do not believe that any publisher would publish this writing on my terms (that is, complete and &quot;as it is&quot;), so I have chosen to scan my typewritten and handwritten pages into &quot;.pdf&quot; files, and not re-type them as Word files. Besides, I believe that the future of document transmission lies with &quot;scanned&quot; files, and and not &quot;typed, alterable&quot; files. </p> <p> The genres in this web-site are divided by category. Follow the &quot;Contents Page&quot; to navigate your way around. </p> <p> Anyone can read, down-load, and share this. No one can own it! Please bear this in mind. </p> <p> If people from other countries want to translate certain parts of my writing into their language, that is fine. The translated version (ie, T.L.) is yours. I hope you will post it on your local web-site, with &quot;links&quot; to my web-site. </p> <p> It is my hope that many of the world&#039;s forgotten, obscure, never-known writers (and artists and musicians) will find a small place in &quot;cyber-space&quot; to share their voice, under reasonable restraint, for others to find! </p> <p> --April, 2012.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:24:44 +0000 admin 1 at http://127.0.0.1:8023