Joseph "Ashira" Kohle wrote:

 My mind does not think of stories in that way. I deal with deep
emotional development in my characters. I want them to be real. i want
the reader to reach out and touch my characters. I take the Ranma
characters and change them for my purposes. If you have read any of my
fanfic's you'll realize that I like OOC a lot.

This probably is the fundamental reason why I generally prefer scripts.
I generally like to read fanfic that's somewhat akin to the original
(if I wanted to read a story like "Justice", e.g. I'd read Bubblegum
Crisis), and I find that most of the really egregious OOC stuff happens
in prose, not scripts.

It's true that prose allows for more introspection; OTOH, Ranma, Ataru,
Usagi, and a host of others, are not exactly known for their 
introspective, indrawn natures.

        Personally I consider script limited in its character
development capability. It is hard to develop characters with digging
into their thoughts and their reactions to a situation. I'm sorry,
script is mainly dialogue and characters don't start blurting out
everything they are thinking.

Not that I would put any of our fanfics on that level, but I just want
to point out that Shakespeare's tragedies have a reasonable amount of
character development, with absolutely minimal stage directions.

Ranma will not suddenly blurt out after a
fight with Akane, "You know I really feel bad about the way i just
acted. I hurt her and she didn't deserve it."

But he would never do this in the original, anyway.  So if you're
trying to write something similar to Takahashi's work, it's an
irrelevancy.
 

        I prefer doing this.
        Ranma stormed from the dojo, his face drawn up into a scowl. Why
did she have to be so unreasonable? Why can't she just let me explain
something instead of jumping to conclusions? It's not like I enjoy the
way my life is. Then why don't you stop it?
        The question struck him like a bolt of lightning. Could it be
that all of their fights were his fault? Is she hurt by my actions? Is
that why she yells at me, why we fight? No it can't be. She is just
violent. As he walked away though, the seeds of doubt planted in his
mind, took root and began to grow. It might be his fault.

 That kind of rationalization is not possible in a script format.

Sure it is.  Ranma: [thinking to himself] Why does she have to be
	so unreasonable?   Etc.

        Maybe that is one reason I refuse to write in script, because I
can't do comedy, or maybe it is simply the fact that I write for the joy
of writing and love to see long and complicated rivers of the english
language form a coherent idea.

Again, you can have beautiful writing in script format ("would that
these
hands of mine would stain the multitudinous seas incarnidine.")  And,
conversely, we see some drek in prose that would never happen in a
script (mixing tenses, purple prose, etc).

Oh, well, enough out of me.  (BTW, I've seen a lot of good stories
in just about any format (even poems :-) ), and the piece of my own 
writing that I'm personally happiest with is davka in prose.)

Gavin