Story
<p><strong>Sponsored Story for the Chauncy Maples Trust</strong></p>
<p>The <strong>Chauncy Maples Trust</strong> is renovating the ship Chauncy Maples as a mobile primary healthcare centre that will travel Lake Malawi, providing care to needy, inaccessible lakeside Malawians. To raise money, I am writing a <strong>Sponsored Story</strong>. Please help! In order to take part, please contribute an idea for the story with your donation.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">THE SIXTH INSTALMENT OF THE STORY IS NOW ONLINE!</span> <span style="color: #000000;">To see the latest instalment, including your contribution, visit </span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a title="roelane.co.uk" href="http://www.roelane.co.uk/sponsoredstory" target="_blank">www.roelane.co.uk/sponsoredstory</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>To submit your idea, either write it in the message that accompanies your donation, or email it to </strong></span><a href="mailto:roelane@writing.com"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>roelanewriting@live.com</strong></span></a></p>
<p><strong>Ideas could include:</strong></p>
<p>- a word or phrase</p>
<p>- a character</p>
<p>- a setting</p>
<p>- a genre</p>
<p>- a title or chapter title</p>
<p>- a quote or line of dialogue</p>
<p>- anything else</p>
<p><strong>Thank you for your help! I will update this page regularly with the latest ideas.</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">For more information about Chauncy Maples, visit </span></strong><a href="http://www.chauncymaples.org/"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.chauncymaples.org/</span></strong></a></span></strong><strong> </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Ideas contributed so far:</strong></p>
<p>- <span style="color: #ff0000;">How about including a wacky, wild-haired, well-meaning wise woman who is very accident prone!... and make it a romance!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">- </span><span style="color: #008000;">an ex police man driving instructer who is a stalker etc</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">- </span><span style="color: #800080;">Why don't we write the story for you with each donor adding the next sentence. "It was 1899 and my first day at work."</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">- </span><span style="color: #ffa500;">maybe it would be fitting to set story on a lake boat. Some kind of mystery, a missing person or object.</span></p>
<p>- <span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000080;">the name Horatio</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> <span style="color: #ff1493;">I suggest a drunk hippo pirate. I agree that it could take a nautical theme. Message in a bottle?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> <span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">"Look! You can see Funwe Hill ..."</span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;">- <span style="color: #ff0000;">a mathematical touch, perhaps the word trigonometry or pi</span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;">- </span><span style="color: #800080;">a bird and a horse</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> </span><span style="color: #008000;">can you give a walk-on part to a jolly accountant?!</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #008000;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> </span></span></span><span style="color: #ffa500;"><span id="ctl00_cphMain__donationTable__donationTableRepeater_ctl00__message" class="bbl-msg">A clever, hard-working 14 year old school boy named Nelson, whose potential is yet to be discovered...</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #ffa500;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> </span><span style="color: #7fffd4;">a hidden secret in the bottom of the lake, and its repurcussions... </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #7fffd4;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> </span><span style="color: #000080;">I suggest that the artist who painted the picture for the Malawi stamp is involved in the mystery..they were there....</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> </span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span class="bbl-msg">I wonder if there are pirates on Lake Malawi and if they could somehow come into the story...</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #000080;">- </span></span></span><span style="color: #008000;">In keeping with the boat's Scottish heritage perhaps you could include bagpipes in your story?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> </span></span></span><span style="color: #7fffd4;">bottle of ginger beer and a baobab tree</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;">- <span style="color: #ff1493;">a lapse pad, madagascar (or some crazy person miming the film plot) and a rabbit with a hard life are a must...</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #0000ff;">Russell and Bromley shoes, pizza delivery, a visit to a sci-fi convention.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="color: #ff1493;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> </span><span style="color: #ffa500;">'Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in.'</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="color: #ffa500;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> </span><span style="color: #006400;">three evil accountants.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="color: #006400;"><span style="color: #000000;">- </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">some kind of baked product</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="color: #006400;"><span style="color: #00ccff;"><span style="color: #000000;">-</span> <span style="color: #ff00ff;">sandblaster, fish eagle and crocodile</span></span></span></span></p>
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