July 25, 2007
POT fanfiction
Title: Writer's Block
Pairings: a little bit implied TezFuji?
Disclaimer: I hold no claims.
Sometimes, Fuji attempts to write. Sometimes, a line of a could-be poem resonates in his head. But most of the times, it's the beginnings of a short story.
If he writes, it will be a melancholy story in a comedic disguise about a person who was never understood and never really wanted to be.
But he loses his ideas after another because he never knew how to start. His head churns on and on about what is the right way to start a chapter, or should he even start at the beginning, or maybe start at the end where his hero will die (sometimes, he thinks the hero must live but then it's not an end if there's no death. There has to be death in some way, anyhow.). But he also thinks that starting at the end is somewhat like reading a book epilogue first, which he never really enjoyed. (He tried reading that way once. He never again touched the book after he finished the last chapter.)
A few times when Fuji has found in his mind the right words and the right way to string them into a sentence or paragraph, and he's not in tennis practice or in the middle of a meal, he scuffles for his bag for a pen or a paper and finds that he doesn't have a nice clean sheet of paper and he never liked writing on his school notebooks because Eiji sometimes borrows them. (He never really thought about just ripping the pages off, because the notebook hasn't really done him anything wrong. So why butcher it? Besides, those doodles on all his notebook margins are so amusing when read as one composition that he doesn't have the heart to tear them apart.)
And most of the times, he never really has that one good pen.
There was one time, though, when he had that story in his head and he had the right pen and clean sheet of paper and he was poised to write the first word to his tale, he had forgotten to think of what his main characters' names are. He believes that the choice of a name should be right; it should reflect what the characters are like. And he really didn't like his main characters named after other people. Fuji values originality… And creativity. After all, he supposed his characters didn't want to be named after fruits or landforms. (He thought maybe if it fits enough, he could name one of his characters Spice or Wasabe, but then he couldn't think of a name that would aptly refer to a person who would want to eat Wasabe.)
For that, Fuji just sighs and put his pen down. He never considered writing a story with nameless protagonists. Fuji thinks all good things should be worth a name. (He has names for all his cacti… And his favorite tennis rackets.)
He could always write his villain as the-one-who-cannot-be-named but then, that one's already worn out by evil sorcerers.
So, he just smiles and thinks that he's too lazy to finish a story anyway.
After all, he always has his camera nearby. And as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words; and more if it captures the right moment.
Fuji's very good with capturing the right moment.
He has albums full of pictures taken at the right moment. His only dilemma is how to channel his literary genius into encapsulating those thousand words into a title.
His only titled work was one stolen shot.
It was entitled "Tezuka."