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
Maas worked with four different law firms and even carried the case on his own for months, writing motions longhand on white legal pads and sending them via U.S. mail.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
"I write slowly, the first pages in longhand, then typing," she says.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023
I imagined myself writing longhand, an old-fashioned dip pen stabbing furiously into a bottle of black ink and then scratching with amazing precision across sheets of white paper.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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