First person vs limited third person perspectives
I have my entire story outlined, my characters created, world built, etc, but I can’t figure out how to start and a big reason is I can’t decide which perspective to use.
I heard you’re supposed to use first person for more character driven stories so you can really see inside their heads. And you’re supposed to use third person limited for more story driven plots so you can get glimpses in other people’s minds and have a more broad view of what’s going on.
As a brief overview, my story has two central characters. They were childhood friends before war drove them apart. I want to follow both of them, as I thought it would be cool to have opposite arcs: as one character gets better, one gets worse until they hit rock bottom. That’s when they confront one another again. So, I guess there’s basically two plots, one about the internal and personal stories between these two characters and one about the external and continental war that’s going on.
I know that people generally like third person limited way more than first, and that first person is heavily used for YA novels, while the former is used for adult fiction.
Idk. I know I shouldn’t base it off what others like, but I don’t even know myself. Any tips?