Authors’ Scribbles: 2 of 3

Today another writer gets their scribblings – and their personality – disected by our graphologist. So who does this belong to? CLUE: She has around 800 titles to her name.

Diane Simpson, a professional graphologist, gave us this analysis :

Here we have a somewhat intense individual. Highly driven and very intelligent, she is a controller and in turn will resist being controlled.

She is likely to be known for successfully getting her own way. She will achieve this by relinquishing very little of herself. In a business sense this would probably reveal itself by her having an inability to delegate – her work will become her ‘baby’ and not something to be handed over to another.

Here we have an adept communicator, but there are also signs of visual artistry in this writing. Note the Greek ‘d’s’, the dives and swoops of the pen as it connects entire words and the many other presentation related manifestations. This is someone with a real eye for line and design; someone able to visualise exactly what she wants to achieve.

A real stickler for detail and discipline, she reveals a respect for both in the way she dots her i’s. Most people complete a word and then go back to dot any i’s; the further back their hands have to travel, the less accurately placed the dot – not so with this writer! Despite the writing being speedily and unhesitatingly written, the longer the word and the further back her hand has to travel, the more accurate the placement of the i dot (an unusual and frankly quite amazing indication of this woman’s attention to detail).

The endings of words tend to be abrupt; she doesn’t linger. This is a sharp minded, somewhat impatient individual who really will not suffer fools at all, never mind gladly. Neither particularly introvert nor extrovert, in fact showing a disinterest in how she appears to others, I suspect that people may tend more to bore and irritate than to intrigue and attract her.

The wealth of angularity in her script suggests a certain spikiness of response in other ways; this is someone who will stand her ground in the face of opposition — her first thought being to question the motivation of the opposer rather than the content of their argument.

Creative and practical thinking are manifest in this woman’s writing in equal parts, leading me to believe that creativity and practicality will play equal parts in what she does.

Check back tomorrow for our final author – and to send us your guesses…