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Silver-Midnight, I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out what your problem actually is; what you're really asking.
Let me see if this helps: It's seldom a good idea to not write something that's demanding to be written. You could just write this thing that's eating your brain and justify it on the grounds that no writing is wasted, even if it's not publishable.
It's also possible that your Saboteur Self has come up with a really good way of preventing you from writing at all with this fear that anything you turn your hand to will become fan fiction.
Is it wise to write a story that may or may not fall into a genre that you haven't really read? I don't know about wise, but I do know that people do it all the time (with varying degrees of success).
Let me see if this helps: It's seldom a good idea to not write something that's demanding to be written. You could just write this thing that's eating your brain and justify it on the grounds that no writing is wasted, even if it's not publishable.
It's also possible that your Saboteur Self has come up with a really good way of preventing you from writing at all with this fear that anything you turn your hand to will become fan fiction.
Is it wise to write a story that may or may not fall into a genre that you haven't really read? I don't know about wise, but I do know that people do it all the time (with varying degrees of success).