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longhand

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1. longhand - Noun

2. longhand - Adverb

3. longhand - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I delay typing as long as possible. When I read a poem in longhand I'm hearing it, when in typescript I'm reading it. A poem can appear finished just because of the cleanness of the typescript. Mark Strand

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. Ernest Hemingway

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room. Colm Tóibín

I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy. Joyce Carol Oates

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer. Martin Amis

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads. Beverly Cleary

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