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
Selleck spent four years writing the book longhand on yellow legal pads, quoting from George Will and Raymond Chandler along the way.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 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
She started making notes - writing longhand, in pencil - in 1999.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 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
