Here’s a brief Overheard on choosing point of view:

As Chris and our student continued to talk about her first story, she wanted to know if writing her story in the first person was okay. How should she choose which point of view?

Writing in first person is generally easier than in third person. Most fiction is written in third person limited - it’s only describing what that character knows and sees. So even though it’s written in the third person, it’s limited, as though it were written in the first person.

Writing in the first person is easier because it forces you to stay consistent in the limited point of view. If you are in the third person, you’ll be tempted to break those limits and share more than you should. In first person, you are writing only what that character sees and feels and experiences, and this helps you stay focused.