Bought this book today
It's called Atomic Habits by James Clear. I don't normally buy self-help books but here it is. I was looking for second-hand books on linguistics for my MA course but couldn't find much. Long gone are the days where you could find many decent second-hand bookshops in Oxford... I remember, there used to be one in Park End Street, a paradise on several floors, and one on the High, a long corridor full of treasures, now replaced by pseudo-ancient English sweets. Oh well... that guy sits in front of me while I was waiting for the bus, and said this book was good, he said, you need to think small and not think you are a writer (not sure why he gave that example), think 50 words a day... so can I do 50 words a day right now? I could do a mini-diary, a la Pepys, not for 10 years though... till October, when I will at last be able to write more creatively. I have nothing against my MA in English but frankly I'm a bit fed up now with writing academically... it's not for me....