: Re: Choosing between first and third person I'm not an author, but I often wonder if I was to write a novel would it be best in third person or first person? I like being able to delve into

@Connie138

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Third person is the best way to go, especially if you are a novice writer.

Many writers make the mistake of using first person narrative thinking they need to explain what's going on instead of showing what's going on.

While I write plays, they follow the third person even though every character is speaking in first person. But it is the character speaking, and not the writer telling.

If you are very skilled, you could get away with a first person narrative, whether injected into a story or do a whole story in first person.

You need to be a skilled writer to pull that off. It is not that it is difficult to write. What is difficult is to get your readers to buy into it. That is where the skill resides.

In plays, I have to use diaglog that advances my plot, and if I write in an action scene, it must also do the same. Most plays, it's not about the dialog as much as what is done on stage with it.

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