1. What if rain required someone or some thing to actively push it out of clouds?

2. In an attempt to summon a god, the main character is successful, but continually summons the wrong gods because the association items they are using aren't the correct ones to use for the god desired.

3. Everyone gets to be wield magic, but for only one year. The year in which someone is magical occurs sometime between their fortieth and fiftieth birthdays.

4. Name for a character in a story: Chase Wizard.

5. On a newly colonized planet, one time around the planet's orbit is so long that periods are organized by what happens in them. (This is the basis for my Darting Anvils story.)