Writing Techniques and inspiration

[wasellajam]

I've been watching a few youtube videos about songwriting techniques and when it comes to the lyrics I've found that a lot of songwriters have 'lists' to draw from for writing a song.

Say for instance a list of verbs, weather, fauna, places, people, nouns, adjectives and food, then pick one or two from each list and then force themselves to write a song incorporating all of the choices.

Just wondering if anyone has used this kind of technique or anything similar to come up with scenarios and details when writing poetry.

Sometimes when I'm stalled I'll start listing words at the bottom of the page for possible use in the poem. They mostly go unused but while finding and reading them some other word will come to mind and spark a line or maybe the rest of the poem. Thinking about words can't hurt. I wonder whether those words end up in the final song or are replaced along the way.