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A buddy of mine on another crime writers' site proposed a writers' exercise and it was fantastic to get the juices flowing again if you feel stalled out. It only takes a few minutes of your time, and it's fun and interesting, and really neat to read what others have done. He proposed a writing exercise as follows (I will, of course, use different items). You write a scene, using a maximum of fiv…