The New York Times Modern Love submission window reopens March 1st. Let’s spend August together getting you ready! In Write a Modern Love in February, I will walk you through the process of creating a Modern Love-style essay from idea generating through structuring, revising, polishing, and submitting. Course includes:

✅3 live coaching sessions with a Modern Love writer who’s also helped writers with essays that got selected by Modern Love

✅Immediate access to the video lessons in the How to Write a Modern Love self-paced course

✅An option to add on a two-round edit of your essay (while limited spots available)

Welcome! Let me introduce myself—I’m Theo Pauline Nestor (I go by Theo with she/her pronouns). Author of two memoirs + numerous essays, I teach other writers the concrete steps they can take to realize their publication dreams.

Please check out my online classes while you’re here, including the on-demand classes Taylor Swift Writing Lessons, How To Write a Modern Love Essay and Find and Query Agents for Your Memoir.

I also offer editing and consulting services.

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And, check out my two books —How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed and Writing Is My Drink.

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