Writers - If you dislike writing a scene, is that a sign that this scene shouldn't be in your book?

Depends.

Is the scene personally distasteful (morally or ethically) to write but neccessary to drive the character or narrative forward? No.

Is the scene just making you tear your hair out because you can't think more than a sentence or two in? Possibly.

Is the scene there just to appease your readers (or what you think the readers want)or there because every other book like this has this type of scene? Then most likely, Yes.

Are you sure it's that you just don't like writing this scene, or is it that you are having writer's block and are frustrated with a lack of ideas? My advice is to just write everything out in the first draft - drabble, ranting, lots of dialogue, ect. Editing the manuscript will eventually eliminate any unwanted mini-plots and unnecessary scenes. Obviously you thought about writing this scene in the first place, so it might go somewhere you will eventually find beneficial to your story. Just giving up because you have a gut feeling of being uncomfortable can easily be powered through when you realize it will only make you stronger as a writer with the practice, and as an editor during your other drafts.

The first draft of my current novel was full of those scenes. I had a beginning and an end to my story, but had no idea how to get to Point B from Point A. There were several forced scenes I added to see if any ideas would come of it -- and it payed off. I eventually introduced a character not originally in my planning that helped add lots of twists to my story.

If you dislike writing a scene, it just means that you aren't entirely sure where you want your story to go. I would advise writing it anyways because you never know what will become of it. I mean... you can always delete the scene if it ends up being bad.

It depends on why you dislike writing it. If a scene is simply boring to write, then it's probably going to be boring to read as well. If I find that I'm writing something which is completely uninspiring to me, then I generally start the paragraph again and try and come at it from a new angle which may be more interesting.

Similarly, if it doesn't seem to gel with the rest of the novel, I may take it out or rewrite it. But I don't tend to notice that until I read through it afterwards. I may enjoy writing it, but it just may not make sense or have a purpose in the novel, in which case I save it in another document for future use.

If you dislike writing a scene because it's difficult/upsetting, it may still be important/relevant to your novel. There are always going to be parts like that in your novel and perhaps you just have to push past them, because after all one of the points of writing (at least to me) is to explore things that people may find uncomfortable.

Hardly. If I dislike a scene, it's generally because I'm tired, annoyed, or a character does something embarrassing or uncomfortable. For example, I had a kid get coated in caca. Some accident with his little sister. It was unplanned but actually fit fantastically (I needed the kid to get very, very angry with the girl). Despite how well it worked, I started to feel uncomfortable as I wrote it. I mean, it's CRAP. Do I really want a kid covered in CRAP in my story? That's disgusting! Still, I finished the scene and fed it to my brother. He loved it.

I don't like putting my characters into situations like that. Mainly because, as the writer, I'm more aware of their emotions. I feel their embarrassment when they fart in a quiet room; I feel their shame when they fail. And sometimes I feel things the characters don't. The same kid above has a brief encounter with a coal miner. The miner tries to trip him, so the kid clutches his chest and coughs as though he's dying. It's like saying, "You're going to get a lung disease and I'm not! Ha ha!" It was really, really hard for me to write this, because he's not a cruel kid. He's just ignorant. Now, am I supposed to exclude this encounter because it was hard to write? No. It shows the kid is human. Especially as kids, we say or do things we do not understand.

Sometimes, when a scene is finished, I'll debate whether it is necessary or not. But I never interpret my dislike of a scene as the scene being unnecessary.

There's a difference between disliking writing a scene because it's an especially difficult scene to write, and disliking a scene because it doesn't fit. You have to decide which of these categories your gut feeling falls in.

If you're feeling any sort of block, it's not because the scene is bad. It's because you haven't thought over how you're going to execute it. Being blank means you need to explore the situation further and paint it from every angle. If you dislike writing it because it's difficult, it could be because it's out of your comfort zone and this will only fade with time and practice. If you dislike writing it because it seems jarring or out of place, then before scrapping it, think of how you could revise it into working. Only when all hope seems lost should you even consider giving up on it completely.

Not necessarily. I write scenes I don't care for all the time because they are needed to pull the story together. On the other hand if you don't like the scene and the story will be fine without that scene then go ahead and skip it.

It depends on the scene. I killed three people in my story already. I wanted to take back one of those deaths but decided it must belong there. I just recently killed another character decided that too must belong in my story. I completely took an entire chapter out because it didn't feel right or make any sense at all. If you truly feel like this particular scene don't fit I'd take it out or at least figure out way to make it better.

No, usually it just means that you're tired of writing and that you just need to push through it. You won't feel completely awesome and enthusiastic about every single scene in your novel.

Yeah, I realized a few years ago that if I wasn't finding any enjoyment in writing a particular scene, then my readers probably weren't going to like it either. So when I find myself writing crap that I don't find appealing at all, I figure out a way to make it more enjoyable for me or else I take it out.