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@melodyjoy

Hey there! @zee has given you some great advice already, but I just thought I’d throw my two cents in.

When writing in first person, you are pretty limited to what the MC knows and sees, but there’s heaps of ways to get around it, depending on the context of your story. The Hunger Games for example, is told in first person by Katniss but she sees things she doesn’t have any other way to know about through television broadcasts and propaganda videos, like her being able to see Peeta and what has happened to him in the final book. She also sees old recordings of previous Hunger Games to find out about the pasts of several of her allies and friends.

Another example is in Harry Potter. Harry Potter is told in limited third person, which is pretty much the same as first person. Rowling deals with the problem by designating specific chapters (such as the first chapter) for seeing other people at work, for example Dumbledore and McGonagall in the first book) or Harry is allowed to see things through magical means, such as the prophetic dreams he has occasionally, or the memories that are stored in magical objects.

So it can be done,  it just requires some creativity.