The Bucket List

1. "winterkind"
• I'm actually in the middle of experimenting with this one. I just have bits and pieces - ok, actually, I have tons of pieces. I'm just missing one thing, which is kind of important: the conflict.
• Anyway, it's more or less just for fun for me. It's a celebration of writing and coffee and cats and winter - which are among my favorite things.
• Main characters: Sophie and Julian from my stock company (more on that in a post)
• It's mainly about a world where magic once existed but is on its way out of existance, and Sophie's life quest is to find what little bits of wonder there are left. Among other things, she makes pressings and other artwork out of fallen bits of old magic, which exist much as dead leaves do, floating around the world. 
• She meets Julian, who is a winterkind. Think of it as . . . a kind of being that the idea of a benevolent Jack Frost might be based on. 
• The story overall is just a quiet, subtle affair about love and wonder in everyday life. The problem, like I said, is that I can't figure out a good conflict that is pressing but not too largely dramatic.
2. A Beauty and the Beast retelling. 
3. Something with dragons and/or airships.
4. A story about mermaids, set in contemporary times, with probably the same tone as winterkind.
5. Testament Hill - which is a lengthy action/adventure/conspiracy trilogy a friend and I have been planning for years.
6. Until the End of Colin Ackartt is another story haunting me, but the general plot is way too complicated (or may not be, hence the problem) to get into here.
7. Peter Pan retelling