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I prefer 3rd person. You aren't tied to the bounds of the perception of your character.

Well, for more personal stories I use the lst person to bring out emotions, and for shorter ones, I tend to do third person.

Though emotion can still be used both ways.

.I found 1st person to only be superior in emotion when there's only one person in the story and your main focus is emotion rather than plot - 3rd person is just more ve3rsatile imo.

I really don't mind... Just not second person because I don't know what it is

2nd person is someone else telling the story. I think the Sherlock Holmes books are 2nd person, because I remember Watson telling the story, not Holmes.

3rd person I have to use it at school, so I rarely use an other point of view.

Point of view should not be decided upon through personal preference alone.

What kind of story do you want to write? Do you want to focus on personal emotions and slowly opening the plot along with the character, or do you want to open up the plot to the reader before/after you open up the character? Do you want to hide any emotions within the main character or use them to build the story? Shall you create mystery within the plot line, or the main character's personal thoughts?

Though many stories can be written from multiple points of views, the best are the ones that match a desired effect that the writer tries to create.

2nd person, or omniscient I believe. Both points of view.

Thanks Flite, I was actually thinking about doing a 1st person story. Ok thanks everyone.

I usually prefer third person since it's a bit less awkward for me. But at the same time, it can generally end up as a better read if you use first person, since you can describe what kind of emotions & whatnot your character is going through. I've found myself using first person lately.

I prefer 3rd person but I always end up writing in 1st. Take KOA for example. Although that is mainly a story from two points of view.

I personally don't mind writing in either, but I think both POV's have their pro's and con's.

If you want to have something happen that the main character does not know about, and you want the reader to know, then use 3rd person or 2nd person.

Sorry to ask another question, but how do you prevent the weird symbols when you copy-paste from something like Word? Do you do Microsoft word, then wordpad?

I also use a sort of mixed POV, where the story is told in 3rd person, but

Sorry. . . .

But where there are interjections of 1st person thoughts from the character sometimes. Like in my story 'Deepening' which is in my art thread.