Storyteller's Gambit Coaching: Story Development. Create Stories That Linger In The Mind Long After The Story Is Over!

Juneta Key

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Wild Years

"Juneta is the BOMB! We call her the velvet hammer and if you work with her for half an hour, you’ll know why!" ~Shaunta Grimes

"Working with Juneta is the best decision I have ever made in my writing career." ~Elisabeth Rossman

"Juneta Key held my feet to the fire, made me choose one world to work on, and helped me plot three books in that world and possibly a fourth! " ~Meg Stewart

Do you need help building a framework for your story?
Let me help you shape your story bones and develop your five plot points.

Maybe you need help getting unstuck?
Sometimes it is the question you don't know to ask that gets your story moving again.

Need help understanding world building as it pertains to the story you want to write?
Learn to world build through character or build a world that generates inspiration for endless stories.

Or plan a series building a world you can return to time and again. I see patterns and connections everywhere.

Maybe it's the story middle giving you the blues.
Let me help you cross that desert filling it with scenes or maybe it's just finding your ending. You're in the right place.

Do you want to learn how to write short stories for promotional tools such as reader magnets, opt-ins, or to submit to contest or magazines?

My favorite thing is connective or serialized short stories to use in my newsletter or holidays.

Does tech get you down?
Do you need one on one coaching help with Scrivener? Scapple, mind mapping software? Or help with learning the basics of Canva to create your own promotional material and branding? Need help with learning the basics of Atticus a new formatting software for PC's

I have a limited number of spots at any given tim?e. Coaching spots fill up fast.
*Service list & prices below*

Email for availability and/or get on my wait list.

~Testimonials~

Juneta is the BOMB! Every time I talk to her about my work-in-progress she whips it into shape. Not by doing the work for me, but by asking the exact right question so that I can see the path for my work. We call her the velvet hammer and if you work with her for half an hour, you’ll know why!

Middle-Grade Author & Ninja Writers Club Founder Shaunta Grimes

Founder and CEO of Ninja Writers Club, Guild & Academy

Working with Juneta is the best decision I have ever made in my writing career. Not only has she helped me develop a solid story for my new novel and series, but she also sprinkles in useful and down to earth writing teaching. I will not write another word without Juneta as my coach.

~Elisabeth Rossman

Storyteller

Juneta Key is a great writing coach. As a new fiction writer, I was scared to start my first short story, but Juneta patiently explained how to build a story, how to show not tell, and she guided me to reach for my best work. She generously shares her extensive writing experience and is an exceptional listener. She’s also a whiz with WordPress, Canva, and Social Media. I highly recommend all of Juneta Key’s services.

~Barbara Giles

Visual creative forever – typographer, graphic designer, fine artist, and jewelry designer.

Juneta asks the hard questions. She's helped me get to the heart of what's wrong with a scene. Plus she's great at helping dig down into what is really needed to get done. If you need some accountability, she's your gal for that, too! Actually, she wears so many hats, no matter where you are in your writer's journey, she'll be able to help you on your way.

Leilani Austen

Author

I had decided to start writing fiction again, after being stuck for years. But I found I just couldn't pick one story to work on. I kept abandoning each one and coming up with new ideas. Juneta Key held my feet to the fire, made me choose one world to work on, and helped me plot three books in that world and possibly a fourth! She knows just about all there is about plotting, story development, and world building. I highly recommend Juneta Key to anyone who needs accountability and expert story development coaching.

~Meg Stewart

freelance content writer, software guru, technology and business coach

I was fortunate to work with Juneta as a developmental editor with the first draft of a novel I had written. She walked me through the manuscript with an emphasis on the plot. She helped me see some significant plot holes that were in the text. Ultimately, I believe she helped me create a much stronger manuscript ready to submit to agents soon. Juneta is terrific at asking the right questions to help you figure out issues in your novel without being prescriptive and telling you what to do. I think this organic method makes writing easier and helps you, as an author, own the work and the developmental editing process. I would highly recommend any author to work with Juneta for your developmental editing needs.

Dr. Jason Wrench

College Professor and Author of Both Fiction and Nonfiction Works

My writing style is pantser by nature. I always have key points in my story but have trouble writing enough scenes between them. I am also tired of losing 4000-6000 words of already-written-text when I explain my story to a fellow writer and realize what was written wasn’t the effect I was after. I decided I would hire someone for story development to help me out and see if my writing flowed any better or any easier. I still have a lot to learn, but Juneta Key has helped me plot my current novel, and we are working on creating a three-book fantasy series. She asks me all the right questions and keeps asking them until our ideas gel. It has always been easier for me to bounce ideas off someone else than to try and come up with ideas on my own. I plan on hiring her for the different books I have lined up.

~Margaret Burnison

Author

I’m not a pantser. When I started working with Juneta I’d already rigorously studied and applied the five key plot points. I’d read books, taken classes, etc. In working with Juneta I realized things about my story that I hadn’t recognized, issues with pacing and tension, plot points that didn’t make sense. It was a pleasure to work with her and I would certainly do it again for future books.

Mark Ingram

Author

Juneta Key

Coaching Single Sessions & Package Deal Pricing

Main Services:

Story Development & Structure - getting unstruck, building framework to avoid plots holes, and weak story structure.
World Building & Character ARC Development - there is more to world building than just creating elaborate worlds. Learn how to use character development to world build and flesh out conflict.
Short Story - Create shorts stories to use as reader magnets, or promotional tools to promote your bigger work, or submit to contest and magazines.
Plot Consultation (Plot Your Short Stories/Novel) - get the bones of story structure right and start out on the right foot.
World Building for a Series (Create a world you can write in for years) - is your idea big enough to support a series, and how much is too much world building.

Additional Services:

Productive & Accountability - creating proficient writing habits to get the work done and finished.
Scapple-Mind Mapping Finding Your Ideas and developing them - a fun way to brainstorm your ideas and create connections between one idea and another.
Scrivener Word Processing Software-basics to intermediate using this all-in-one project, software for writing---An alternative to Word and Google Docs.
Create Your Story Bible - using Scrivener or Word.
Canva-creating your own social media images and book covers.
Atticus-New formatting software developed by Dave Chesson created of Publisher's Rocket. He says it is like Vellum and Scrivener got together and had a baby.

All sessions conducted via Zoom

PRICING BELOW:

Productive & Accountability

Single Session Productive & Accountability Coaching $25 / 30 Minutes
Package: 4 Sessions - $75 / 30 Minutes

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Short Story
Story Structure
Plotting 5 Plot Points and a few scenes

Single session Short Story, Story Structure, Plotting: $75 / 60 Minutes

Two sessions $ 145 / 60 Minutes

Package Deal Short Story, Story Structure, Plotting:
$250 Four /60-minute sessions each.

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Story Development
World Building
World Building for Series

Single session: $95/ 60 Minutes

Two sessions $ 175 / 60 Minutes

Package Deal Development and World Building/ Series World Building:
$350 Four/ 60 minutes sessions each.

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Scrivener--Basic to Intermediate

Single session: $75 / 60 minutes each/

Two sessions $ 145 / 60 Minutes

Package Deal: $250 / Four 60-minute sessions each.

Group: $55 per person 4-people minimum /90 minutes.

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Atticus—Basic Understanding and Operation

Single session: $75 / 60 minutes each/

Two sessions $ 145 / 60 Minutes

Package Deal: $250 / Four 60-minute sessions each.

Group: $55 per person, 4-people minimum /90 minutes.

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Scapple--Mind mapping

Single session-: $23/ 60 minutes session.

Two sessions $ 39 / 60 Minutes

Group single session: $25 per person 4 people minimum / 60 minutes sessions.

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Canva Basics. Inquire here. Basics $25 / 30 minutes $ 40 / 60 minutes session.

Book Covers
Social Media
Color Branding

Two sessions $ 70 / 60 Minutes

Group single session: $25 per person 4 people minimum / 60-minute session.

"You know, the best thing about being a writer is you don't have to make excuses for pretending. It's part of the job. Where do all the stories come from? I believe it is the human condition that makes us all heroes and villains, saints or monsters. Life is the mythology of living that creates the stories of our lives and imaginations." ~Juneta

SPECULATIVE FICTION AUTHOR

Juneta Key

She loves writing about Grumpy Old Gods, Space Opera, Paranormal & Sci-Fi Fantasy adventure, mystery, and romance.

Her stories encompass all the complexity of human nature, whether human or non-human, mage, mystic or pilot. She relishes stories that involve the mythology born of living, and the shadows that make us all heroes, anti-heroes, villains, and poets.

She is co-owner/editor, marketing, social media, and website manager of Stormdance Publications. Short Story Submission Guidelines available on the site during open call periods.

She is a founding member of Storytime Quarterly Blog Hop.

She is admin of the Insecure Writer's Support Group.

She is a Project Manager for the Ninja Writers Press. Fiction Columnist and Editor of The Ninja Writers Pub on Medium. Accountability and Buddy Program Manager, teaches writing classes, hosts co-working calls and Write-In Saloon's for Ninja Writers LLC.

Juneta offers one on one coaching through Storyteller's Gambit in productive & accountability, story development/world building/plotting/series, getting unstuck in novel, short story, plus Scrivener, Scapple, Canva help, EMAIL HERE.

Storyteller's Gambit Author Website

Stormdance Publications--themed anthologies!

Short Story Fantasy Collection:

Magic Born or Magic Cursed?

Atlantis has risen! Cataclysmic events reshape the globe and a new world order emerges. Magic once hidden is released back into the world. The magical Isle of Moon Hollow is no longer just an ordinary seafaring community.

Discover how the residents of Moon Hollow overcome their trials and tribulations.

Pre-Emergence: Remi and Smoak
A young girl comes into her magic when she comes of age. Is she magic born or magic cursed? So far she’d say cursed.

The Emergence: Poseidon’s Island
A young thief triggers the rising of Atlantis setting off global catastrophic events.

Instinct
A young boy’s innate magic is ignited early, in the aftermath of the rising of Atlantis. Scared and alone, his instincts take him on a survival journey to find his destiny.

Deep Dive
What secrets and legends lay under the Isle of Moon Hollow? A tourist shop owner and deep sea diver will soon find out.

Immortality
No one expects to outlive their children. Driven by grief, a man seeks the portal to Hades in Mermaid Cove.

Available on Amazon

Volume 1

Grumpy Old Gods

What happens when gods wane, retire, or just decide they need a change of employment?

13 writers took up the challenge and let their imaginations run wild in this anthology that is nearly-always amusing, somewhat insightful, and completely irreverent as we imagine the gods of yore in retirement.

Grumpy Old God V.1 thru V.3 from Stormdance Publications

~Reviews of Grumpy Old Gods
Volume One~

Now You Are in Trouble!: or Where did all the toilet paper go?

Anthology

Don't panic. Fifteen funny stories to get you through the pandemic. Because laughter is infectious.

Stories by James Husum, Bill Bush, Nic Steven, Elizabeth McCleary, Gregg I. Veg, Sarah Neuen, Sabrina Rosen, Vanessa Wells, Juneta Key, Jemma Weir, VS Stark, and Katharina Gerlach

Juneta's Amazon Page

Storyteller's Gambit Coaching: Story Development. Create Stories That Linger In The Mind Long After The Story Is Over!

Juneta Key

Juneta Key

Coaching Single Sessions & Package Deal Pricing

SPECULATIVE FICTION AUTHOR

Juneta Key

Short Story Fantasy Collection:

Magic Born or Magic Cursed?

Volume 1

Grumpy Old Gods

Now You Are in Trouble!: or Where did all the toilet paper go?

Anthology

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Storytellers Gambit Coaching Services

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