“Quiet writing isn’t a genre, it’s more like a style and an approach. For creative nonfiction, it’s narrative that focuses on everyday moments, employs keen observation, and includes details and imagery to demonstrate and investigate the human experience. It reads quiet but still carries the tension and conflict that is fundamental to good storytelling.” — Andrea A. Firth Excerpted from Quiet Writing: Start with an Everyday Moment, Brevity Blog Post, April 23, 2025 Andrea A. Firth is an editor at Brevity Blog.