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    Personal Life Stories & Memoirs

    Nora brings knowledge, humour
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    Personal Life Stories - Memoirs

    Autobiographies and memoir stories are written to encourage the sharing and understanding of information, wisdom and knowledge about your family, business, or culture, but mostly about yourself.

    Writing your own life experiences, or recording family histories or stories challenges the mind and gives a sense of belonging and life purpose for both the writer and reader. The process of recalling and sharing stories promotes personal growth, respect and self-worth.

    These autobiographies or memoir stories  will become family treasures that can be passed down through the generations – a gift that will last forever!

    Meet Nora

    Nora Zylstra-Savage is the founder and owner of Storylines which is an organization that promotes personal self-worth and community appreciation of stories and personal life experiences. During the past 30 years, Nora has offered and taught writing skills through her many programs, courses, workshops and retreats, to assist individuals in documenting their own life stories and tapping into their own creative writing potential. Nora also provided coaching and content-editing services.

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    From writing about what you know or have experienced to creating what is possible taps into the depth of your imagination and offers it out into the world for entertainment, inspiration, understanding, discussion, knowledge, or pure enjoyment. There’s a vast array of genres, characters, locations, topics and challenges to explore. Dig deep and see what wants to be expressed and written. You’ll be amazed at what comes up and out!!!!

    What Our Students Have to Say

    "Nora Zylstra-Savage is an excellent instructor. Her vivacious personality and boundless enthusiasm brought the course to life."

    Recording Life Stories

    "Superb teacher - a rare combination of organization and flexibility - of openness to serious issues and humour, of compassion and distance, of support and critique. As a teacher myself, I am taking notes!"

    Haliburton Memoirs I

    "Nora is an excellent teacher. Her classes are challenging. She encourages and inspires her students; she uses every moment to guide the participants in creating their memoirs and improving work in progress. Opportunities to share writing and private counselling are given."

    Five Oaks

    "Nora has energy and a great interest in helping the class to learn, to expand their writing skills. She gives thorough but constructive criticism."

    Guelph One-Day Writing Workshop

    "Most thorough and informative writing class I've attended. Description of course was very accurate."

    Haliburton Creative Writing

    "Nora was exceptional. Her people skills are well tuned. I would certainly register in another course with her."

    Writing Retreat

    "Nora has great passion and I really enjoyed the week."

    Haliburton Creative Writing

    "As usual, Nora's style was genuine, inspiring, and well thought out. She listened, offered advice, showed a genuine interest in all her pupils. Well done. Look forward to taking another course with her."

    Haliburton Memoirs II

    "Very thorough, informative, challenging, inspiring class! Well done!"

    Recording Life Stories

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    nora@story-lines.ca

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