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Zuriel:
Which do you prefer?  A story told in first person or third person?  Does it depend on the author?

Just curious, because another group I'm in seems to thumb their noses at First Person storytelling, but now that I've read all the DF books, I'm thinking I like it even more than I did before I read DF.  I've tried it a few times and thought it worked very well, but those were short stories.  I have a series of short stories I want to write and am wondering if I should stick with third person.  Any thoughts on this?

cenwolfgirl:
for my book i mostly write in first person
this is rely fun as it is rely easy to get diffrent vew points across and as i normaly have disabled chrs in my book showing what that is like for them is easia in first person
i can do third person it has advantages like you can show what is going on in other plases with out having to be rely clever aboutt your vew point shifts
infact you don't have to do them
but first person has disadvantages other then vew point shifts can become very nesersery you have to keep trace of hat is going on and what they will and will not notice
it takes mor planing to do first person but i think it is more fun to write

but that is just my vews on it

Zuriel:
I know First Person has limitations as you described, but what makes it attractive to me is I can put more detail into the thoughts of the person than I normally would be able to do in Third Person, and do it without using as much dialogue, if that makes any sense.

I've also written a short story both ways, first and third, and almost always, the first person narrative won out over the third, so I'm thinking I should pursue this line of writing with my new series, which is completely centered around the main character.  Maybe it makes a difference if you're using your "main" character as a group or team, instead of an individual.  In that case first person wouldn't work as well to me.  Mmm...I feel inspiration coming on...

cenwolfgirl:
yes that is why i like first person better
yes useing more then one main chr works better in first person and a few years back it was a bad habit of mine to get borad of a chr so swap to another one
how ever the story ended up being rely good and got me an A in my english class so i have mostly stuck with this method of writting
it in my opinone is rely fun

OZ:
I don't have a real preference. It just depends on the author's skill and on the story being told. Both have strengths and weaknesses.

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