During the heat of the day I blog just before lunch and usually write several posts for Sugar Mountain Farm which is still on Blogger.com which is on rented web server space in my own domain under WordPress.

I do homeschooling with our kids and desk work while the sun is high and then more blogging in the end of the day.

During each period I moderate comments and do quick email. Most post writingis done during the mid-day and like you I make extensive use of WordPress’s advanced posting for NoNAIS.org. I need to move SugarMtnFarm.com over to WordPress just for this feature.

I think the exhaustion is caused by lack of sleep. I have just finished designing the site so I should get more hours of sleep in the coming days.

With the content of IntelliStore.ca, I think I will do what Darren, which you just mentioned..to write a series of posts. Well, thank you guys for all your help.

This blog is great! :)

I write mainly about search engine optimization and web design and development topics and my posts tend to be rather long and take a good amount of research. I probably spend as much time researching a topic as I do writing it.

I think getting into a rhythm can help a lot. At first I posted whenever I could. I soon realized it just wouldn’t work. I decided I would post 3 times a week. Like I said my posts do involve a lot of time and I thought that was a reasonable amount that I could write each week. Based on the rest of my schedule Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday have become my blogging nights. Knowing when I will be writing has helped to keep me focused. The consistent rhythm has made a huge difference.

In betweem I am always looking for new topics. I have plenty of sites bookmarked and organized into topics and I keep a file with a growing list of topics. I try to decide on the topic for a given post a day or two in advance to keep my brain thinking a little about it when I’m not writing.

A concept I got from readding this blog was to sometimes write a series of posts. I recently finished a series of post that serves a basic tutorial on search engine optimization. It didn’t necesarily make any single post easier to write, but it was amazing how much easier it felt just staying on the same basic idea for two weeks. I’ve been writing single posts since as I keep my eye out for another good idea I can turn into a series.

Actually – we are a blended family – the Brady Bunch from Hell – well it was like that 10 years back but now that the rough edges have been knocked off they all get on well together :)

As for answering your question, I don’t blog more than 1 hour a day. That doesn’t include reading other blogs a commenting on them.

How old is your oldest and youngest?

I’ve been going for about 2 and a half months now, and as a little ray of sunshine it has gotten better for me.

I’ve just published the website and would like now to concentrate on the content of the site. Do you guys find yourself exhausted at the end of the day? How many hours do you guys blog?

Just curious.

Darren, newborns sleep like 20 hours a day. I didn’t know this until my first was born. I wanted to play with her all the time but she slept most of the time. The thing that may happen is they are not on a 24 hour schedule yet like we are so you may have a lot of time during the day but then when you are supposed to sleep the baby will be awake wanting to be fed and changed. So you may even feel the need to nap during the day when they nap.

The hardest age is when they learn to crawl and up until 4 years old. You should be fine…