Writing in boxes

I recently compared Script Frenzy ideas with a friend and he informed me that I have written myself into a box - that every story starts the same, is in the same world, is always fantasy, etc. Now, while I do not consider my script to be fantasy, he kinda does have a point. Every novel that I have in the works is a fantasy novel, every one has a female main character, etc. . .
He told me, well, he told me many things, but he told me to basically take a break and write something else. So that's what I'm doing. He gave me the idea, and a deadline, so in less than two weeks I will (hopefully) have written my first *real* modern story since I began writing almost three years ago. Fun, fun, fun!
I'm a bit nervous, fantasy is a genre I'm comfortable with, but I'll never know what I can do until I try. It may be a really good story, or it could stink.
I spent the last few days in Ohio, visiting family. It's a nine hour trip one way, and I had planned on writing. Yeah, didn't really happen. I spent more time looking out the window at the scenery I've seen over a dozen times. Oh well.

Script Frenzy starts in four days.
And I think that's all I really have to say for now.
Ciao