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Changing perspective is not as easy as changing personal pronouns. It also affects the knowledge of a character as well. First person perspective has insights of the main character's inner thoughts and feelings, since they are the narrator, third person has not. Then there is third person limited and third person omniscient, which require totally different approaches and need to have different twists and turns to be belieavable. Changing the pov basically requires total rewrite of the story.


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