Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-6052796-20140928191616/@comment-397235-20140930004327

See, I dislike first-person narrative because I like the idea of trying to get inside the heads of as many of my characters as possible (and a story which shifts PoV but still uses first-person gets really...complicated); likewise I dislike third-person omnicient because it's cheap: one of my favorite writers, Tom Clancy, uses this style, but I can never make it work for me. The four writers I emulate the most, Timothy Zahn, Robert Jordan, George RR Martin, and Harry Turtledove all use third person limited (and with Martin and Turtledove, only use a handful of PoV characters; Zahn and Jordan both preferred to give everyone, even relatively minor characters, a shot at PoV).

Of course, my love of third-person narrative is also why I've no love for TV and film as a story telling-medium: it's just about impossible, unless you have a genius director, a good writer, and a good actor to just get inside a single character's head, and when you're working with a large cast like what most of what I write has, there's simply no way to give everyone the amount of screen time they deserve.