Have you ever tried to solve a problem by having a written dialog with yourself?

I have tried it on Wordle and it works pretty well. If I get stuck on a word and I can’t see any possible solution, I will write down in detail why I think that there is no way to find the answer. One thing that this does is to keep me from thinking about the same thing repeatedly. It helps open up possibilities that I had not thought of. It also helps to write down possible guesses that are close to being possible solutions but not quite.