So, here's my question for the day

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This for those out there who do writing.

What do you do when you find yourself in the midst of a section that you suspect just isn't working at all? Do you:

1. Give it up all together?
2. Fight your way through at and hope it turns into something?
3. Leave it alone, go to other sections, and wait for inspiration to strike for resolving the problem passage?
4. Other?

I'm just curious what other people do. I'm in the midst of a story that I think could turn out to be pretty good. (Damn you internet people and your fanfic influences. I'm still waving the *shaky fist* *g*.) But in the meantime, I may have bitten off a little more than I can chew--it just keeps growing. And I've got a section that I think might be a mistake. I keep plugging away at because it might turn out to work after all once I get everything else laid out. But I have a feeling that I'm going to have significantly cut or eliminate some chunks of what I'm doing right now.

How do you problem solve when you run up against writing dilemmas?

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[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

I'm currently in the middle of writers block on an episode that is going to be apparently twice as long as it should be if I keep plodding away at it like I have been (or was when I last was able to write more than a sentence at a time.

Generally, if it's just a section that's bugging me, I'll skip it and come back to it. If it's what I've got right now, then I just have to step back and hope my brain gets back into it.

So I'm sketching an idea out for a screenplay instead.