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One Sister's Song

One Sister's Song

When Audrey becomes her nephew’s guardian back in her hometown, numerous discoveries force her to rethink all she knows about love, race, and respect.

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Karen DeGroot Carter

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About Me — Karen DeGroot Carter

Author. Editor. Poet. Mom. Also a total grammar geek and word nerd.

3 min readOct 29, 2020

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The Writing Cooperative

Who, Whom, Who’s, and Whose

When — and how — to use each in your writing

3 min read1 day ago

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Taking Your Online Writing to the Next Level

Insights from a Sinem Günel master class on succeeding on Medium — by building bridges along the way

3 min readApr 22, 2024

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Get WIRED: “How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI”

Privacy tips for ChatGPT, Substack, WordPress, Adobe, AWS, and others

3 min readApr 10, 2024

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A series of white padlocks across a red metal grid against a red background.

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The Writing Cooperative

En Dashes, Em Dashes, Parentheses, Commas, and Colons

When to use which in your writing

5 min readApr 7, 2024

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The Writing Cooperative

Drilling Down a Bit More Into Specific Word Choices

Beyond but including American-vs.-British spellings

4 min readMar 17, 2024

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Drilling Down a Bit More Into Specific Word Choices

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The Writing Cooperative

Tricks to Help You Remember U.S.-vs.-British Spellings

And why such differences exist in the first place

5 min readFeb 25, 2024

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Pink sunset sky behind Big Ben clock in London, England.

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The Writing Cooperative

How to Punctuate a Series Correctly in Your Writing

Whether or not you use Oxford commas

3 min readFeb 4, 2024

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Large stone domed library on campus of Oxford University in England on green grass beneath blue sky

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The Writing Cooperative

Remote Relative Pronouns and Why You Should Avoid Them in Your Writing

Especially if you want your writing to be clear, concise, and as professional as possible

4 min readJan 14, 2024

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Remote Relative Pronouns and Why You Should Avoid Them in Your Writing

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The Writing Cooperative

The Relationship Between Relative Pronouns and Relative Clauses

And when to use the relative pronoun “which” vs. “that” in your writing

4 min readDec 17, 2023

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Karen DeGroot Carter

Karen DeGroot Carter

Book Author

Bylines in Publishers Weekly, Literary Mama, others. One Sister’s Song (novel). Not Nearly Everything You Need to Know About Writing (ebook).

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