Question: Do you ever get too close to your characters? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Answer: Every writer gets too close to their characters; there is no helping it (not for me anyway). We (writers) are our characters. We created them and they do and say what we want them to. If we were not close to our characters, there would be no story. I really don’t think being too close to your characters qualifies as a good or a bad thing; it is just the way it is.