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Novelist Rebecca Abrams offers advice for young aspiring fiction writers by offering tips on how to: find inspiration; learn about writing dialogue; dream up characters; devise plots; and so fill that frightening empty page. But above all, she says, it is important to remember that no one expects someone to pick up a violin and play it straightaway. It is the same with writing – you have to learn the basics, build on them, and practice.