GPT-5.3-Codex vs Kimi K3 for book writing

**Choose third person limited.**

For this story, you need a narrow lens *and* a little interpretive space. Close third lets you stay tight to the 14-year-old’s experience while planting details she doesn’t decode (smell, routine, neighbours’ reactions, missed school notes, etc.) so the reader can. First person is powerful, but it locks you harder inside her self-explanations.

**Same moment, both ways:**

**First person (47 words)**  
Four o’clock and the kettle’s still cold. Mum’s sprawled on the sofa in her cardigan, one shoe on, one off, mo…

**First person. Present tense. Commit to it completely.**

The reasoning:

1. **The irony must be structural, not narrated.** In first person, the gap between what she reports and what she understands is built into every sentence — she supplies the facts, the reader supplies the meaning. In third person, the surplus knowledge has to live somewhere, and it lives in the narrator, which means it's *handed* to the reader rather than discovered. Discovery implicates. Delivery merely informs.

2. **It puts the reader in her position.** She's a child…