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
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
During moments of rest, he leafed through a diary, written longhand by a Russian soldier: “I’ve been at war for four weeks already and I miss my mom,” Courier read.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 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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