longhand
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The high-school dropout read urban crime fiction, then wrote his own stories longhand in notebooks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
"I scribble and sketch, but shift quickly to the computer. I thought I'd write the whole manuscript longhand - by the third paragraph I gave up."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
But starting in the late 1990s, Streisand began writing down memories — in longhand, because she couldn’t type.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
She started writing what would become “The Other Black Girl” in longhand, on Knopf stationery — something that helps her be less critical, she said — during quiet moments at her cubicle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
I’d done it the first time, grudgingly, not telling him how much I hated typing, how I did all but the final drafts of my stories in longhand.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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