Personally I usually prefer third person narrative. But some stories do call for a first person point of view. And there are plenty of stories I like that are in the first person. I just get tired of all the I's. Currently, I've reached a point in a new story I've been working on where I'm starting to think it might be better in first person, than the third person it is now.
But this is no small decision and its one I would like to make before I move further on in the story. I don't want to finish a 65,000 word manuscript and go back and change it all to first person. I'm currently about 10 chapters in with an average word count of 2,000 per chapter. So if I want to make the change, now is really a good time to do it.
But I'm still wavering. First person is harder to write in, what with all the I's stuff. I do, both in writing and reading, tend to prefer the third person. But its not a hard and fast rule for me. For me, first person is just easier to do badly. Third person is by far the easiest. He, she, and it don't have the same overused repetitive feel that I can have.
There is however one thing that is pushing me towards first person. The closeness with the POV character that this view provides. That might be the decider right there. Everything is from the heroine's POV, and I feel like first person would connect the reader to her even more...
What do you think, dear readers? What do you prefer? And how to decide on such a drastic rewrite?
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