Uncle Jim,
I know that a lot of times when I come to your thread and ask for help, the short, sweet, and simple answer is really just sit down and write. The only problem is I can't, well, I can't with a certain type of story, if that makes sense.
The issue is, well, I like to write fan fiction. Sometimes anyway; I don't do it half as much as I used to. I think there is nothing wrong with that. I don't think there's anything wrong with reading it either. However, me, personally, I read in more fandoms than I actually write for. And lately, this one particular "fandom" has been bugging me (fandom feels like the wrong word honestly), not necessarily to write in it per se, but just in general. And it's starting to affect some of my ideas. Not all of them, thankfully. And it's like my brain is trying to compensate or I'm trying to (subconsciously) end my slight fixation with this thing by/through original fiction. However, the problem is because I previously thought like that, now, I can't write a particular genre(or genres) of original fiction, that I usually like to write, because I automatically default into "fan fiction" mode, and I try to make the story fit or make sense for that thing.
And logically, the answer would be just write for thing and get it over with. One problem, a very big problem, I really, really don't want to write for it. Not really. So, I don't get what my deal is.
So, now I basically can't write a certain type of story or else it gets "converted" to something else and I just lose all ability to write.
And so, now, to further that problem, I don't know if I should just take a break until I'm sure it's out of my system (not write at all or just short stories or whatever, nothing "major") because what if this problem migrates into the other types of stories I like to write, or if I should continue working on the WIPs I have now, letting the problem resolve itself while I work on these stories?
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Also is it wise to write a story that may or may not fall into a genre you haven't really red before, not really?