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What Calamity Jane’s life might really have been like – Interview with Western author K. Lyn Wurth
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Interview Timeline
K Lyn Wurth has written many western stories and novels and she recently wrote a historical novel about western heroine Martha “Calamity” Jane. We spoke about women in the west, Calamity Jane, and K Lyn’s writing process. The Not So Quiet Life of Calamity Jane (Five Star, 2021)
1:34 – K Lyn talks about why she wrote about Calamity Jane.
3:05 – K Lyn talks about her approach to writing about Calamity Jane’s life. She discusses the historians whose work she used.
4:17 – K Lyn talks about some of the research she did for the novel.
4:55 – K Lyn talks about the places she visited that are associated with Calamity Jane.
5:40 – K Lyn talks about what made Calamity Jane famous.
6:43 – K Lyn talks about the female perspective on Calamity Jane.
8:13 – K Lyn talks about modern society’s approach to a history of women in the Wild West.
8:57 – K Lyn talk about how common Calamity’s rough experiences were in the west.
12:09 K Lyn talks about Calamity Jane lying about her age.
13:00 – K Lyn talks about playing guitar.
13:39 – K Lyn talks about her love of movies.
14:12 – K Lyn talks about Calamity being a mother.
15:30 – K Lyn talks about Calamity being illiterate.
16:34 – K Lyn talks about the reasons she thinks Calamity lied about her life.
18:17 – K Lyn talks about trying to piece together Calamity Jane’s life.
20:13 – K Lyn talks about Calamity being a battered wife.
21:06 – K Lyn talks about the musical feel to the book and Calamity’s enjoyment of saloons.
23:05 – K Lyn talks about how she does her writing.
24:08 – K Lyn talks about creating side characters and characters that don’t exist.
25:29 – K Lyn talks about when she started writing novel.
26:47 – K Lyn talks about voice in writing.
29:09 – K Lyn talks about how long her drafts used to be.
31:11 – K Lyn talks about mostly doing western writing and her Nebraska novels.
33:01 – K Lyn talks about having been an emergency medical technicians.
35:03 – K Lyn talks about how magical living in the big thicket area of Texas was.
38:23 – K Lyn talks about struggling with the end of the book.
40:59 – K Lyn talks about developing a book based on another historical character.
42:42 – K Lyn can be found at klynwurth.net
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Guests: K Lyn Wurth
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, podcast, Five Star, historical fiction,
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