It's all about planning. I mean actually write down each day, hour, even half hour if you like - exactly what you are going to be doing... that's the trick.

Your day job sounds pretty time and energy consuming...

But maybe if you get up an hour earlier each day (if poss) and have your written plan at the start of each week, something like

1) 20 minutes checking, emails, messages here etc

2) Start post, write for half an hour

NEXT DAY

1) 20 minutes checking emails, WA messages etc

2) Continue with post - half an hour

and so on and so forth

and have a solid plan in the evening

1) Hour for dinner

2) hour with partner

3) half an hour writing post

at least having something like this, and trying your best to stick to it - you should be producing one quality post, each and every week - that's FOUR a month.

Anyway, some food for thought - just a rough idea and your plan will be different of course... but the point is...

Find a plan that works, write it down (the 'writing it down' part is important!) - and stick to it!

best
Steve71

Hi Emily, I'm a carer for my disabled mother, so during the day when she is up it's near impossible getting anything done here. So I have to wait until she goes to bed.

It's now 1.15am and she has just gone to bed and this is early for her. So I'm often still here at 5am in the morning simply because that's the only time I get some quiet time to myself.

And even then, I feel so tired by the time she goes to bed that most nights I'm just too tired to actually then get much work done. So I'm seriously behind on where I should be for the time I've been here.

So I now try to make notes as and when ideas come to mind, and over time I have the making of a post. I'll hen tidy it up, fill in the holes, search some relative keywords and I have a post.

This isn't the ideal way to work, but sometimes we have to just work around our own circumstances. If you want it bad enough you'll find a way, just don't lose heart, you'll benefit in the long run.

Jay

Hi Emily, It is not easy to keep up the momentum that you start off with as family and friends start demanding some of your time. I work full time and have to keep a very tight schedule so that I can work on my, now, two sites.

I schedule one post per week on my most established site as you find that even when you are away, visitors still arrive :).

3 posts a week continuously is a hard call, so just do what you can do around your personal schedules. It just means that progression will be a little slower, but at least you are keeping your site regularly up to date. This is what the search engines look for.

Hope this helps.

Lis.

I too enjoy your site and your material, and I also struggle with finding time to write due to my hectic schedule. What I am starting is to carry a notebook around with me to jot ideas, rough outlines, or even write my article with. I usually end up putting all of this together on my days off, finding pictures to go along with my material, and then scheduling automated posting for my articles. It has definitely helped me out!

Hi Emily. My answer is I am not doing it! I too struggle to write that much and I am currently getting one post out a month. But quality is better than quantity and also, in the beginning I had more ideas now I struggle there too so I came up with a monthly post that I need to commit to that so it gives me a focus. Don't be too hard on yourself. You are doing fab. Olive

Hi Emily, you may already know this but wordpress has a cool feature which allows you to schedule posts for future publication. So you could, say, write your content a few minutes at a time and then schedule it for later release. Doing it this way would allow you to keep publishing posts regularly when in reality you're several posts behind :).

Hi emily, I hear you about finding the time to make this work. I went though that a few years ago when I started. It;s tough to balance all of our obligations and keep our selves motivated to keep going. I pushed it too much, and ended up burning out, and leaving WA altogether.

My suggestion is to carve out time in your schedule that is strictly for your website. It could be over your lunch break, early in the morning, or for a few hours before you go to bed. Put it in your calendar! You may not have time to work on it every day because you need to spend time with your loved ones, but this is important too, and it is essentially a career for you. Perhaps you can have a discussion with your partner about what your goals are in this. If you want to make this work long term, there will have to be some concessions with your time. Maybe you could get your partner involved in content ideas and make it a project between the two of you. This is for you, and it is important.

If you find yourself attending lots of social events, maybe cut that back for a while letting people know you have a work project to spend time on.

One strategy for me has been to work on finding pictures and key words when I am on my lunch break or in the morning before work and then writing my article or post when i get home from work.

Hi Emily, you have a wonderful site, I like your way of communicating.
If you can not find time to post 3-4 times a week, don't feel guilty a post in a week will be fine.
When i joined WA, a short time later i moved home,started a new job and hubby moved in and i can assure you it was more than i could handle.
Since then i have learned to accept that i can only do so much, what i cant do today,next week is another time, im not rushing anywhere.
Better quality content than rushed half done content.
My two pence