Many of my well wishers countered with questions that unintentionally poked holes in my game face. "Write what?" they asked. "For whom?" they asked. The answers to their questions involved explaining vast quantities of research through which I had only recently begun to sift. I felt my courage failing because I could not adequately explain process I was only beginning to understand myself. That insidious self-doubt began to erode my courage.

But I persevered. As I plodded through articles about query letters, marketing skills, and copyright I began to see opportunity in mountains of material.

That opportunity belongs to writer who can stick it out. As I delve into some of markets listed online and read about their requirements, I now think: "I can do that!" A torrent of ideas spouts out of me as I work, as I sleep, as I drive car pool. I have several pieces started, a myriad of sticky notes hanging from shelves in my office, and a legal pad with several pages of notes. My game face is back and for first time it is supported with real confidence.

Looking back on those first weeks and months, I realize what I have accomplished. I have taken first step - I made decision to write for a living. I have learned that writing query letters is standard and expected practice for pitching ideas to potential markets. I have learned what information should be included in a query letter. I have learned that Writer's Market is best place to find those markets.

I am now taking next step: I'm looking for appropriate markets and writing query letters to pitch my ideas. We'll see...

-Don't forget to notice what is language of website. For example, word "biz" and "bizz" both have many search result. But only word "biz" is used in English website.

Sometimes some websites have typing errors. Be cautious about it!

The same technique can also be applied to check a grammatical error.

For example, if you are in doubt which one is right sentence:

"The brave man swam over river yesterday." or "The brave man swam accross river yesterday"?

Follow steps above, but don't forget to put (") symbol in beginning and in end of sentence, in order that Google will not cut it.

If your sentence is too long, try to cut it.

For above example, just type "swam over river" and then "swam accross river".

However, you should take care in checking sentences, because not every sentence can be checked with this technique.

One more thing, it is very difficult if you want to check emotions of a sentence. For example, you can not check whether "Would you please...?" is more polite than "Will you please...?" by using this technique.

That's why you should use English everyday on any occassion, so that you will get used to it.