Personally, I find that a nightmare. Isn't it more fun to start a fresh scene, than go back to an old one once you have lost the moment?

Oh, yikes! I have to agree with ErrantFilms. I would never recommend this. Abandoning a scene in the middle is a disaster, especially if you already have the whole thing planned out! Once you get back to it, it feels like you've already written it, and it turns into a big boring slog, rather than the inspired moment it was previously. You should never quit when you're riding that wave, unless you absolutely have no choice.

I find stopping mid-scene, or mid-sequence, really useful. Then I start the next day on something I already know how to write - and by the time I hit the next scene, I'm 'warmed up' and getting into it again...

Like I say, "There is no right way to write." Every writer is different. Every story is different. Do what you need to do.

So I guess it really is a 'dumb' trick!

I would never stop mid-scene either. Ride out the wave until it ends. I always prefer the feeling of a scene being finished, and not lingering in my mind, and when I get back to it, I've forgotten what I was going to do in the first place.

Ouch! I must have the worst habit of all of you. I stop mid-sentence. I get up in the morning, review what I had written, finish that incomplete sentence, and my muse and caffeine kick in. It may not work for anyone else but it's working for me.

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