longhand

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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

She started making notes - writing longhand, in pencil - in 1999.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2023

Some city ordinances weren’t even indexed, forcing Birch and Karabian to leaf through the longhand lawbooks page by page, wearing special archival gloves.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023

Since I’ve written most of my works longhand, I often think about how the technology of the computer actually changes the texture of my thinking.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 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