A definition...of sorts

Creative non-fiction utilizes the past, taking memories, the non-fiction part, and conglomerating those experiences with details that dramatize the 'essentials' about the speaker, i.e what the reader will find interesting, amusing, etc. The key idea being to keep the reader believing, plausibility is essential to the life of creative non-fiction. 

I feel that creative non-fiction serves to show audiences that people are, at their ground level, similar in more ways than not. The details vary from story to story, experience to experience, however, the story, if its a good one, revolves around a problem that must be solved. Perhaps the narrator must overcome a character flaw to reveal a deeper, genuine asset, for example.

Creative non-fiction, I feel facilitates a natural bridge between fiction and non-fiction, where one is clearly defined, and the other can traverse imagination and surreality, creative non-fiction is an amalgamation, dancing on the precipice of plausibility. Creative non-fiction gives perspective and a voice to notable times in a life; its a play of the mind, a production of memories.