I recently tweeted that I'd lost my testing mojo. I didn't feel inspired to write. It seems some other people feel the same way. Yet others are still cranking out superb posts each day, week, month. Others have been quiet recently, but that might have nothing to do with losing their mojo.

I think my mojo has returned though. I think I'm back on fire. I've certainly had little problem writing this post. I also jotted down a few hundred lines this morning at about 5:30 am when my son kindly woke me and insisted I prepare him some breakfast,. Whilst he rapidly consumed his shreddies I blasted down some notes. It didn't take long and it felt right. Mojo. Back on track. Then we played Thomas the Tank Engine and he used me as a human bouncy castle.

I know why I'd lost my mojo, which in turn prompted this blog post. I'd been ignoring my (RSS) reading list.

It had become so large that I'd had a mild form of information overload. So I stopped reading it for a few days. Since ignoring it I'd done little reading about anything. Just a couple of books on hip-hop.

But in ignoring the feed I'd actually not addressed the underlying problem. Information Overload. So I've started dropping some subscriptions instead of ignoring my feeds. It's been difficult but I've managed to get the feed down low. And in reading a manageable amount of posts I'm feeling inspired and fired up to write again.

It's interesting how many people come up with ideas about testing and even more interesting, to me anyway, is how they actually get these ideas online. Some of the conversations that happened off the back of my mojo tweet indicated that some people just sit down and write, then publish;
some people sit down, write a little, come back to it and build on it over time;
some people, like me, write almost all of it, but then come back to fine tune and amend it, usually after a good nights sleep.

No doubt there are countless other ways of coming up with ideas and then getting the writing down. I know this topic has been discussed a few times on the writing about testing community (http://groups.google.com/group/writing-about-testing).

So go on, tell me why you sometimes lose your testing mojo (if you ever do), what you do to get it back (if you ever do) and how you manage your writing.

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