Can’t fix it? Play it up!

I’ve seen this done in many stories, and kill me, I can’t come up with an example for you, it simply escapes my mind (maybe it’ll come to me later and I’ll edit this post), but the idea is simple.

If you’ve tried everything you possibly could to fix a story issue (a plot hole, a character flaw, a scene dead-end, a continuity lapse, a deus ex machina element, etc.) and it’s not getting fixed, PLAY IT UP. Feature it. Make it glaringly obvious.

Say, you have a character, Joe, discover a gun in a...