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Neelima Vinod

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Neelima Vinod is a writer, editor, and mentor.

She creates worlds when she is not at work and reads when she does not write. The yakshi spirit she writes about is an amalgamation of the oppressed voices of women and her love for poetry.

Neelima has several publications in literary journals and newspapers and two books including a fantasy novella to her credit. She works as an editor and teaches students the nuances of writing at the Young Author Program, a writing program she runs in Bangalore.

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	Unsettled: The Search for Love and Meaning 3.79 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	eFiction India Vol. 1 Issue 07 by Nikhil Sharda (Goodreads Author) (Managing Editor), Surasti Puri (Contributor), Sreejita Biswas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Footprints on the Moon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonderkids Have Wings: Sixteen Short Stories by Young Writers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Complete Guide To Job Placement(Free Cue Cards):A complete guide to secure better job placements 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Many, many years ago I visited a house where a writing ‘workshop’ was being conducted. I walked into an apartment where I was given a bunch of papers stapled together. For the next two hours, I was immersed in my imagination. I do not remember what I wrote but I do remember the happiness I […]

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“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

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“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
― Pico Iyer

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“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
― William Faulkner

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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