Writing third-person at first scared me. It was new. Secondly, the main character is a thirteen-year old girl. I am much older than thirteen and I am not a girl.  Eventually I told the story in third-person through three characters. It took a few months to figure out “the rules of third-person”, if you will, but once I had a handle on them and I really understood my characters and their voices, the style offered a very powerful way to tell the story in a dramatic way.