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I wonder how often this nugget of wisdom is rediscovered and passed on, in every field – I remember learning it as a kid from an autobiography of Roald Dahl, who in turn learned it from Hemingway...

> I never come back to a blank page; I always finish about halfway through. Hemingway taught me the finest trick : “When you are going good, stop writing.” You don’t go on writing and writing until you come to the end of it, because when you do, then you say, well, where am I going to go next? You make yourself stop and you walk away. And you can’t wait to get back because you know what you want to say next. > [1]

[1] https://www.writingforums.com/threads/hemingways-curious-tri...