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Mark Starlin's avatar

I enjoy first person for longer works and third person for shorter works. Although I have done both for everything. It really depends on what I think will work best for the story.

When I wrote my first novel I decided to use first person because it was really the tale of one person on a year long adventure. And I wanted the reader to be inside his mind for the experience.

This led to issues when I decided to tell a necessary related side story my main character wasn’t in. Since I was a complete rookie at writing, I decided to have multiple first person accounts in the novel. Each character narrating their part of the story if the main character wasn’t present. It is probably not a great idea, but it seemed to work. And it was fun for me getting to write different characters.

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Rachel Palm's avatar

I love third person and multiple POVs because I find that other perspectives help us get to know our main character in a new way. What I really love is a trio with one member being the focus and the other two having their own little subplots. This then allows me to reveal information to the audience and sometimes poke fun at the main character.

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