A self-paced course on everything you need to know about how to write a New York Times Modern Love essay. The course takes you through every step of the process from idea generation to writing & structuring your essay to revising to submitting.
Video lessons in the self-paced course walk you through:
How to avoid the Modern Love DONT's and highlight the Modern Love DO's
How to find the right story
How to tell your story so readers will connect with it
How to structure your essay
How to write an opening that pulls the reader in and ending that offers closure
How to revise and polish your draft
How to submit your essay for publication to the New York Times
Meet your instructor
An award-winning writer and instructor, Theo Pauline Nestor has decades of experience helping writers get their work published. Her New York Times’ Modern Love “The Chicken’s in the Oven, My Husband’s Out the Door” was the third essay published in the column and was reprinted in the paper in 2019 and included in the column’s two anthologies.
Her first book How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed was published by Crown in 2008 and was a Target Breakout Book and a Kirkus Top Pick for Reading Groups. Her second book Writing Is My Drink: A Writer's Story of Finding her Voice (And a Guide to How You Can Too) was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013. Her essays have been published numerous places.
Modern Love Columns by Students & Clients
Jenny Gorelick's Modern Love
Michèle Dawson Haber's Modern Love
Susan Forray's Modern Love
Kristine Lloyd's Modern Love
Natalie Appleton's Modern Love
Margot Page's Modern Love
Tim Elhajj's Modern Love