I've always preferred to write in first person point of view. I don't have anything against third person writing, I just tend to avoid it when I create a piece. Though I do it subconsciously, I feel that I do this because I enjoy engrossing myself in the story and the plot as if I were the first person character. I seem to be able to put more emotion into a work if can write it in the perspective of one of the characters.

There is also this kind of connection I feel with characters I make through first person writing. It sounds silly, but first point of view makes my writing feel more personal, and I always hope that anyone who reads it feels that personal connection as well.

I like third person point of view over first person. It allows me to show the thoughts and feelings of many characters, whereas first person only allows me to reveal the thoughts, emotions, and intentions of one character. But I do like first person writing, it automatically gives the story a sense of realism that you have to work harder for to obtain in a third person point of view story. Yet at the same time I really love the possibilities that third person point of view gives me; and after being so unrestrained, going to being in the box -- so to speak -- of first person seems well restraining and at many times for me, limiting.

- Michael Hall