Before the typewriter, clerks and copyists could write relatively quickly in shorthand or longhand. Stenoscript is written using traditional longhand cursive characters with a few variations and special symbols. Like cursive longhand, it is completely based on elliptical figures and lines that bisect them. Kelley writes his first drafts longhand using a Bic ballpoint and yellow legal pad. Sweet wished to produce a shorthand system which could replace longhand in most situations. Postman never owned a computer or typewriter, and wrote exclusively in longhand. Herbert would write his drafts in longhand on "jumbo pads". He writes his drafts in longhand and prefers extreme isolation when working. Punctuation is fairly similar to the ordinary longhand equivalents. The manuscript was written in longhand when Greene was 22 and newly converted to Catholicism. Ellroy writes longhand on legal pads rather than on a computer. She wrote the entire novella in longhand. Basic procedures involved computer sight reduction or longhand tabular methods. British heraldry created three names for specific variants, rather than blazoning them longhand. His first longhand version was usually not very different from the final printed version.