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
And while other companies began to digitize operations, Samyang’s employees did their books in longhand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
Escoffery says: "I don't write much longhand, but I write a lot in my head and that's what I did during those pauses. There were 50 or so drafts written."
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 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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