How Having a Non-Maine Cast Changed My Story

The first thing that I did is most of my male characters will solve problems by punching somebody or blowing things up. And so I looked at the women and said, all right, I want these to be people, not because they're female, but because of their backgrounds. At some point everybody's carrying guns. It's on Thursday. Things have to blow up. So dig into how you chose the setting for the story and how you named the things that you needed to name specifically in this story.