One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.
I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.