Part of the story of my new book has to do with my character’s impending move into a McMansion. My character is worried about somebody hiding in her walk-in closet, but she, nor her parents, is the type to consider it a bad thing for three people to move into a three thousand square foot house simply because it’s not needed. I’m seriously having qualms about writing this! It just seems so wrong not to somehow pass judgment on these people’s unawareness of the environmental impact of such a large house (energy use, natural resource use, emissions from heating it etc.) and yet that is me thinking this. It has no place in my story. It’s funny how uncomfortable it makes me feel.Do your characters do things that you find spiritually wrong?

P.S. If you live in a McMansion, I am not passing judgment on you, because that is your choice. I am only feeling badly about my characters’ choices because it is hard to separate them from myself.