Imagine a scene with your main character and write a couple paragraphs, first in first person POV and then in third person POV. You can add an Omniscient POV if you want to.
This isn't going to be anything you must stick with later. It is a good way just to get a feel of story possibilities, though.
Let’s see what I can come up with.
Just to note: I really, really hate first person. *shudders*
First Person:
My head hurt, throbbing in time with the yelling that was going on between my nephew and his ex-girlfriend in the next room. I grunted softly and shook my head, catching Lien’s eye, reading the sympathy there, and sent a smile to him in return. Looking around the, room, I sighed when I noticed that the rest of the group either had headphones on their heads or were studiously ignoring the fighting going on.
I hated it when personal shit got in the way of a job, but as it was, it was looking as if the job was personal. I couldn’t help but shudder when I remember the snarling face of my ancestor that I had the misfortune of seeing. I was lucky that I hadn’t fallen down the stairs!
Third Person:
Markus rubbed slowly at his head and allowed his eyes to close as it throbbed, the sound of his nephew’s and his nephew’s ex-girlfriend argument coming through the walls easily. He grunted and smiled at his lover, getting a sympathetic smile from the larger man before sweeping his eyes over the rest of his group. They had hidden themselves in books or headphones, trying hard to ignore the fighting going on.
He groaned and rubbed at his face, shuddering when he dragged his thoughts away from the fight but landed on the face that he had seen just a while ago. Lien hadn’t seen it even though he was only a short distance down the stairwell and they both agreed that he was lucky that he hadn’t pitched backwards down the stairs.
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