Huh. I actually find first person POV easier because it allows me to focus on the world from her eyes, what she reasonably knows, how she goes about doing or finding things out... keeps me from getting lost in my own meanderings. Artificial discipline... I have to do a lot of intellectual judo on myself sometimes. She becomes the mechanism and filter by which I can regulate how miserly I dole out nuggets backstory. I can keep things focused by just using her to give the reader information as she weaves in and out of the other story threads. I think for me, it would actually be more different to do anything outside the first person, single PoV.
Maybe after I get a couple done I'll try my hand at multiple PoV's but for now I'm probably best off getting one PoV at a time good and solid. I've read too many books where the tone/voice of different PoV's got mushy and tangled, so I want to make sure I don't stumble into that sort of inconsistency myself .
When I get this one nailed down, I'll probably do the next one from her friend's POV as the two are frequently separated by circumstances while doing Awfully Important Things. Lets me avoid the Sidekick/Big Damn Hero Dymanic. And also I'm figuring it'll let me deal out backstory bits and portions of worldbuilding the first one wouldn't be privy to without an info-dump. Plus, it'll force me to tell the story in another character's voice and without the dialect. That dialect my first protagonist has spun up is really a lot of fun, but I don't want to let it become a gimmick.
Which brings to mind this question: Does anyone find their characters becoming the boss of them? I've found that as mine's personalities get started, they pretty much start to develop on their own, which is just fine... but the plot issues start to develop in a way that compliments the character's growth. While my overall story arc and it's tent-posts remain intact, but other than that things develop in a way that compliments the character. It turns into a collaborative effort with them reading over my shoulder and saying things like "Oh, I'd never die like that. I'd die more like this..."
I'm not at all complaining about this, since it seems to be working, just wondering if this happens to anyone else.