How to Write a Short Story in First Person

Greg Crack: I enjoy using first person when I'm writing my short stories because with first person you get to play around with a technique called the unreliable narrator. First person is very intimate it's very close and it allows you as a writer to give people internal dialogue the internal thoughts of a character's head on the page. If your character is eight years of age a first person story from an eight-year-old should sound like it's an eight- year-old talking to you if it's a chef they're gonna speak about food with much greater detail and understanding than they might have around a burger. A poem that was sent to me by Meryl Streep that's written in