What Calamity Jane’s life might really have been like – Interview with Western author K. Lyn Wurth

K LyN Wurth The Not So Quiet Life of Calamity Jane

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

Links of interest

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https://www.klynwurth.net/

Contact Information

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Guests: K Lyn Wurth

Host: Cris Alvarez

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