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Rebecca Abrams and Charles Cummins lead a fiction writing workshop that begins with a group of teenagers writing about personal memories of holidays. What can they recall of sights, smells, noises and tastes? The young writers then form themselves into groups and extend some of these memories into short stories. To help and inspire the teams, Rebecca and Charles give each group a genre – for example, romance or comedy. Then a celebrity is added to the mix – it could be Beyonce or Simon Cowell. The results are team written stories that help reveal some of the fundamental techniques of fiction writing.