‘Fundamental Writing Rules’, part 1 If you are a writer (or indeed any kind of creative type), you can probably relate to this: On the escalator going down to the underground you see at least five faces that make you wonder what the story of their lives is, why they look the way they look right now. You overhear a conversation in a cafe and start thinking about turning that into a short script. You read the headline of a news snippet, put it together with something you heard