I prefer third person for the most part, but first person has good use as well. It depends on the subject matter, really. Most stuff I write involves more than one main character, so I don't have any reason to use first person for it, but there are plenty of ways to have a good working first person story as well.

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I find myself using 1st person a lot these days. It has its drawbacks, but it can put the reader in a more intimate relationship with the main character. I wouldn't recommend it if there's a lot of action that doesn't personally involve him. You can get away with switching between two 1ppovs if both are equally well-established, but not so much between 1st and 3rd person.

I've grown up on third person. That's how I've written almost all my pieces. Only on occasion will I jump to first person, and only in the case of very specific characters. Even then, it's only for a short moment in the story - I've never written anything that's first person from beginning to end.

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I have a third person preference more than first, but I still love writing first person.

First person is good for when I want to include myself in the character much more than anything else.

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I usually use third person omniscient, mostly because I have more than one main character and it lets the reader see all that is going on. I save first person for personally stuff, like short, meaningful stories, poems, and essays (blah).

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i am trying to avoid writing in first person for a while. the things i am writing i can not convey as well through first as i can through third because i have not been in the shoes of the people/characters i am writing about.

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I prefer first person. I'm better able to get into the heads of my characters that way.

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It depends on the meaning you wish to convey and how you want the reader to react to the story. Third person offers a whole summary, sometimes slightly biased, of the story but won't get you physicaly in the characters complete mental state. They observe what goes on in the story and relay it to you. Whereas first person allows intamicy between the charcter and reader, putting them in the mindset of your charcter.

In other words I prefer both, depending on what I want to do with my story and how I want the reader to interpret it.

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It all depends how much of myself Iam going to pour into my character (s).

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