A person has just begun to write; saying that he has just begun his writing career or launched his writing career etc will be in a high sounding tone and make him a more matured and regular writer. But the central idea or theme of this article is to help those writers who find it difficult or rather in a dilemma or struggle with their writing particularly in what form or person he or she should write.

Generally, while beginning to write, everyone begins to blog in the first person, mostly commenting about something or narrating his or her personal experiences in his or her life. As a blogger or as a newbie, one may not have come across many genres or different forms of writing. Hence, there is nothing wrong in writing or blogging in the first person. But once he crosses the boundary line of a newbie and gets more and more exposure with different genres of writing, naturally it is time to worry about the form or the person i.e. first or second or third, in which he or she should write.

Before embarking upon to write on any topic or subject, the writer should always decide clearly in what person or form he or she should write. It all depends upon the genre in which the writer writes.

There are mainly two categories of genres: fiction and non-fiction. While the fiction genre is all about poems, novels, short stories etc, that mostly emanates from ones creative writing talent; it depends upon the theme or plot of the subject that the writer chooses to write. If the writer writes a poem, just explaining his personal experience that he or she has undergone, it is more appropriate to write the poem in the first person account. If the poem is about nature, say about a natural scene, moon, wind, water, flower and about an abstract subject, it is always good to write in the third person account;

While writing a short story, if the plot is mostly concerned about the personal experiences of a person involving or requiring no conversation, it is better to write in the first person. Robinson Crusoe is a classic novel by Daniel Defoe, based on the experiences of a shipwrecked person, narrated in the first person. But if the theme involves different episodes connecting different persons and places, it is always good to write in the third person. Especially while writing a novel, a writer has more scope to write minute details and descriptions about the places and about the scene or about a character. Classic example is ‘War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy or Charles Dickens’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities.