User blog comment:Grizzly Bear/Writing In Third Person!/@comment-24821182-20140531175751

My main problem with CPs written in first person is that the narrator is usually a self-insert getting back at the world. There's a ridiculous amount of teenage revenge fantasies on this site, and new ones are added daily. I prefer thrid person stories, as it's harder for people to write terrible Jeff the Clone pastas when they're forced to move focus from their own, bitter mind.

The thing that makes it harder to write in first person is that you have to care a great deal more for making your narrator seem like a three-dimensional person, which is really fricking hard. I definitely think inexperienced writers should write in third person instead, and it also allows them to focus more on building the ambiance through factual descriptions instead of the narrator's subjective interpretation of what's going on.

As you mentioned, a first person perspective can also easily lead to some major problems. For example, I still don't understand why people being chased by monsters stop to write a diary, or why a guy who murdered another guy feels like telling the whole world about it, or why a serial killer warns the reader that he's coming after them.