Guitar picking!

Practice...practice...practice...! Start on top string and pick it once...then the next string, and next all the way to the bottom...then back up. When you can do that smoothly then pick each one twice...when fluid with that then pick each string once down and once up...create various patterns and it'll soon come to you. No picks? Make your own! Find some thing like an old credit card and cut some shapes out of it...plastic milk cartoon...or a piece of thin metal...just try different things and shapes...You might be surprised at what you come up with. Brian May of Queen used a coin!

Hi gbugedy ... Picks are so cheap so get a handful and try them .I like to use a thick 1mm
pick it gets the "old box hummin" ... Try a chord hit the bass note then strum down after
you got that hit the next bass note and strum down then alternate the bass notes ...
                  Happy picking !!

If you live near me, I'll give you some picks.

As far as picking practice, the very best I have found is practicing scales and making sure that each pluck is in a different direction.  Pluck down on the first note, up on the second, down on the third, etc. 

As far as how to play scales, I refer you to the excellent section on music theory right here on Chordie.

- Zurf