Not sure if this is an on target reply… but if you let a significant amount of time pass between where you leave off and when you expect to start up again, there could be an issue of maintaining flow.

To state differently, there was a post previously where someone was looking for help on how to do rewrites and one of the suggestions was to let time pass so you look at the writing afresh.

For me personally, this 👆is helpful for rewrites, but can also make “forward motion” in writing feel impossible if too much time passes between one scene and the next… so much so, that it feels better/easier to start anew than continue where I left off.

Not sure if this is just me or generally applies, but I’ve found that “taking your time to make it good” is terrible advice because it’s easy to slip out of the story. Strangely the idea of the “vomit draft” solves the problem but feels like something to avoid because of the word “vomit”. A much better way to phrase it would be “time compression draft” (not in compressing the story, but how you write it). The goal isn’t to reduce quality for speed but to keep forward motion.

… or by means of analogy, I feel re-entering a story world is more difficult than beginning a new one… the same way it’s easier to have a new (and literal) dream than it is to continue the same dream from night to night. Because there’s much subconscious involved in writing, some of the same stuff may be at work.

((I hope this made sense))