I'm a finger style guy but I used to be a flat picker.
Use a medium Fender pick for flat picking. Use a thin pick for strumming (initially).
Just take any scale and go up and back down. Alternate down/up strokes. Hold the pick perpendicular to your thumb. For fast runs I used to bridge my hand, for slower things where I wanted more tone I would float my hand and flat pick (this was harder for me initially).
Practice.
Be relentless.
Nothing good comes easy. A good song to learn first would be Neil Young's "Needle and the Damage Done"
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