point of view in fiction

My default point of view is first person. I think everyone has a default – a narrative they are most comfortable with as a starting point. I like the immediacy of first person, and the connection with the main character that it allows, both as writer and reader.

In college I wrote a lot of fiction with alternating points of view, all of them first person, but it's so hard to get it right and I often find it off-putting. The voices need to be so distinct in order to move from one to another...