: Re: First Person vs. Third Person: Advantages and Disadvantages? My name is Alex and I'm writing a fantasy novel. I don't know if I should use first or third person narration. First person writing

@Sherry594

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The first person is more capable of showing inner thoughts of the protagonist, but third person can cover larger scales of characters.

In my personal opinion I would say it depends on the style you want to write. Do you want deep thoughts, many inner dialogs and show the world from the view of one person: Then First-Person-Perspective is the best choice.

You want to describe a large world, full of myths, explanations, events that happen far away from your character? Then Third-Person should be the better perspective.

If you start writing you will feel, that first person is at the beginning more comfortable and easier to write (only 1 character with a very deep description, with inner world, and so on). But I found out, that first person perspective is lacking the ability to focus my view on all characters.

So I would say: Think about what YOU want from your story and then decide. There is no "This is better than that.". It's all your choice and what you make out of it.

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