{"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’ve returned … what next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;\">I’ve been home for about 10 days now and I’m slowly getting myself sorted out. As planned, I’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’s disappointing not to have finished the whole thing, I really enjoyed what I did and developed a whole new mindset towards walking. I’ll write more about that in another post. I’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’m not a rich heiress or lottery winner, and I don’t have a sugar-daddy to hand, I’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’ve had ideas roaming around inside my head for years, but they’ve never seemed quite right when I’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’d hope it would be helpful to others wanting to do something similar. This would be one of my USPs. Yes, I’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>‘stressed, middle-aged woman gives up job and goes off alone for a wander round the Arctic’<\/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’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’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’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 v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I've returned ... what next? 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