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.
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.