As a writer I've come up with this kind of problem and some of the people would advise to not write. Basically telling you to just give up. Anyone who'd suggest this is full of BS and is not that much of a writer. Period.
The best advice I can give would be an advise that a writer once said; take the last line of dialogue a character has said and do the opposite. You'd ask yourself why the character would say that and it takes the character into a more interesting direction than you originally intend.
My method is if you're hitting a creative wall then write a random event and keep on writing till your character gets himself or herself out of it. Say your scene is just a character walking down the street? Your random scene could be him witnessing a mugging, encountering a creepy stalker, witness someone jumping off of a building. Damn, talk about dark. Yet with this you've just turned your character's common routine upside down and now it's time to see how the character adapts to it.
I also heard of character journals. Make a journal told by the character that narrates his day to day life. It might give you inspiration for your story.
I'd also recommend finding inspiration in movies and tv. The majority of my characters are usually inspired off of that. When I was working on CAU Legacy my character Flannery was what you'd get if Buffy Summers had super powers. I also tweaked Jennifer's character in; What if Joyce Summers knew about her daughter's lifestyle? And she's a cop.
There are many ways to get out of writers block. It all boils down to how determined a person is to beat it.
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