Third person or subjective perspective?

[starsthatshine]

I'm writing on my crack plot when I get a chance. It's really fun writing it, although I'm doubtful if it's funny at all. I have all these characters popping into my head, complete with backstories and names and you name it. I have the most awesome names ever used on some vampires. To those who missed my cracky plot, behold the power of copy and paste:

Kevin, a seventeen year old vampire lord, has to battle with English tests, hormones, a coven of angry, vengeful witches and, of course, another clan of vampires moving in on his territory.

I'm so excited but sadly I can't really decide anything. I mean, on one hand I really want to write it in an I-form but on the same time I find the third person perspective extremely useful at times. I don't know. What to do, what to do? What would you do? I think the most important thing is that I get my general idea down on the computer as a general thought and then later on I revise it. But it's kind of difficult since I want it to be perfect to start with. Anyway, to make the answers into statistics, here's a poll:

[Poll #1144035]

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Comments

[lostopenwindows.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on how you're going to tell your story. Like you said, third person perspective is more useful and you get the chance to switch perspective if needed. On the other hand, subjective allows you to get "closer" to the main character and write using his "inner voice" which makes the writing more personal. So I vote subjective. :P

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's true, but isn't there also a risk of the writing becoming too static if using the subjective point of view? Man, it's so difficult to choose.

[geeky-webmaster.livejournal.com]

I voted based solely on my personal opinion. And the only thing I find worse than first person narrative is a second person narrative. I cling to the third person like a clingy thing.

First person narratives never make any sense in my head eg. "I look at him" in my head confuses me beyong belief, simply because I'm not looking at him. Things written in the first person can't mesh with the narrative flow in my head.

But, honestly, you should go with whatever style you feel comfortable writing in, other people's opinions be damned! ;D

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

Yeah but on the same time the subjective perspective allows you to let the character become uncensored and reveal his/hers true feelings towards another character. It's both extremely rewarding but on the same time limiting. It's hard to say which one seems like the better to use.

[chocky-mousse.livejournal.com]

I love it when you find something that is just so much fun to write. I alos know what you mean about third person vs. first person. I once wrote about 15 pages of a story in third person and then decided on a read through that it should REALLY be in first person and so, had to go through and chnage EVERYTHING to I, My, Mine etc. It was fun though! =P