>>7670544
Taking inspiration from other things can help too.
I was watching a youtuber play Space Engineers the other day, specifically he was playing a mod where you can't build most things but instead have to scavange them from broken vehicles dotted around the desert.

That gives me a great idea for a scifi story involving probably cute girls stranded on a desert planet but with scifi equipment like gravity guns, welders, fabricators, etc, and they have to piece together technology they find scattered about the ruins of a past civilisation, perhaps to eventually build a rocket. But to add conflict perhaps there should be some hostile alien AI going around.

Maybe one scene would involve some of the characters getting lost because their radar broke, they're slowly running out of supplies and the rest are out searching for them. Eventually they find some scrap vehicle and use it to repair their radar and make it back home.

You see how you could come up with all kinds of things, you just have to let yourself imagine.