Brainstorming

I am thinking about turning one of my Creative Nonfiction pieces I wrote many years ago into a fictional short story. I will keep the basic premise of what happened, just add some flare to it and stuff to make it fictional. Also changing the characters names as I was one of them. Also, for this writing assignment in which I was forced to write this Creative Nonfiction piece, it had to be in the 1st person. I HATE writing in the 1st person. Nothing seems right. It doesn't flow like it should. I believe I am going to take this story and tweak it, giving the characters new names and identities and switching to the 3rd person narrative. I believe it will be a much better story that way.