Luckily, I discussed this very problem with humor writer Joel Derfner last month. He gave me some advice that I keep repeating over and over. So I'm passing it along, just in case you missed it...
"The hardest situation for me comes when I'm writing something bad. Every phrase is torture, because I know that it's boring and sucky, and glaciers move faster than the second hand on my watch. I write until I can't bear it anymore and then I turn on Law & Order and eat chocolate and go to sleep.
"Usually what happens is that within a few days I realize either that I can make it good by cutting it in half or that it's just not an interesting moment and I should just skip it entirely. I think I'm going to have to write a how-to book some day called 'Skip the Boring Parts.'"
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