{"id":170,"date":"2014-09-17T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invertedsheep.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/17\/ive-returned-what-next"},"modified":"2014-09-17T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T19:34:00","slug":"ive-returned-what-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.invertedsheep.com\/ive-returned-what-next\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve returned &#8230; what next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;ve been home for about 10 days now and I&#8217;m slowly getting myself sorted out. As planned, I&#8217;ve spent the summer on a long walk in a long country. I aimed to walk the Kungsleden trail in the far north of Sweden and managed to complete just under half of it before my knees gave out. Although it&#8217;s disappointing not to have finished the whole thing, I really enjoyed what I did and developed a whole new mindset towards walking. I&#8217;ll write more about that in another post. I&#8217;ve also got an excuse to go back next year. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;\">Before I went to Sweden,\u00a0I left my job. Drastic but sometimes these things have to be done. I was getting less and less time to do the things I want to do with my life and to spend time with the people I want to spend time with. Work was, quite literally, taking over my life. I feel a lot calmer and more in control of my life since finishing work. Unfortunately, as I&#8217;m not a rich heiress or lottery winner, and I don&#8217;t have a sugar-daddy to hand, I&#8217;ll have to find some other means of earning a living. But this time I want it to be on my terms. In the meantime I want to spend some time focussing on things I want to achieve personally.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;\">One of the items on my list is to write a book. I&#8217;ve had ideas roaming around inside my head for years, but they&#8217;ve never seemed quite right when I&#8217;ve come to put them down on paper. My time walking in the wilderness gave me lots of thinking time and I now feel I have the right ideas for a book. I had thought about writing up the walk even when I was at the planning stages. There is very little written on it in English so I&#8217;d hope it would be helpful to others wanting to do something similar. This would be one of my USPs. Yes, I&#8217;ve been reading up on what helps a piece of writing to sell and found out all about the need for a USP (Unique Selling Point). I have two USPs. Is that a good thing? The first, as mentioned, concerns\u00a0the lack of writing about this trail that is currently available in English. The second goes something along the lines of <em>&#8216;stressed, middle-aged woman gives up job and goes off alone for a wander round the Arctic&#8217;<\/em>. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;\">I kept quite detailed diaries whilst I was away and I&#8217;m now in the process of writing them up and adding to them. As I read back over them and think about fleshing them out, the book is almost writing itself in my mind. I have so many ideas. I think I&#8217;m almost glad I only completed half the walk as I definitely have enough material for one book already!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a summer spent walking in the Arctic wilderness I&#8217;ve come home to no job, but lots of ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[247,259],"tags":[274,422,436,449,531,545,562,579],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking","category-writing","tag-arctic","tag-kungsleden","tag-long-distance-path","tag-motivation","tag-sweden","tag-travel-writing","tag-walking-2","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I&#039;ve returned ... what next? 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