Sometimes, the thing a group of people need to spark their creativity is to create some artificial limitations. When the possibilities are limitless, it can leave you not knowing where to begin, but by creating these little rules, it can help milk the creative juices of those in the room.
What things can you think of, or have tried yourself? Share them in this thread!
Sometimes the hardest thing is to find a spur for a lyric. There are random phrase generators on this very internet that can give you things to work with, just keep hitting generate on them until you find something that piques something in your brain.
Or just hit generate over and over again until you have three minutes worth of words, then James Dean Bradfield them into a melody.
Can’t think of anything to sing about? Try writing down you feeling about food, or recipes of just talk about nice cuisines, then rearrange what you’ve written in iambic pentameter.
An old band I was in would set at 2 minute timer and we would jam for that time and do phone recordings of it, we would do about 7 or 8 of these in a writing practice. As you knew you were limited you generally tried to make it snappy rather than let something build like you would with typical jams, and obvs if something was good you could work on that particular passage separately.