Writing is like a medical procedure. Precision and clarity, which I value, cannot be achieved without the crucial distance between that captical letter "I" and one's writing mind. Regardless of whether the writing is in first person or in third person. Here is an observation or a thought or a feeling or a memory. The beginning of the writing is the process of putting all those things under anaesthesia, so one can scrutinize and dissect them before one can put first line on the page.