On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Jusenkyo Guide wrote:

I know what you mean, half the time a story I'm working on tends to have sceens left out because the cast just won't do it. (ie: They would be way OOC) This is sometimes annoying because the sceen in question could be the key point to the story. As a ca

se in point, right now for chapter two of Journal of the Ages: Ranma, I'm having problems getting the story started becuse I want Ranma to go off and read the dang book after a bit of trying to forget it was there. The problem is that Ranma never runs (Ul
ess it's a cat)

Of course he runs.  It's called the Saotome Secret technique.