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First Person POV: How Many Are Too Many “I”s?

You decide to write your story in first-person and run the text through an application such as ProWritingAid or Grammarly. Or maybe you submit it to a weekly critique session. You receive feedback that you have X number of successive “I” references in your story. You fret: “This is first-person! …