Author’s Scribbles: 3 of 3

Here’s the final part of The Famous Author Handwriting Challenge: who’s our last mystery scribbler?

CLUE: Her characters would revel in this challenge.

Now you’ve seen all three (here, here and, um, here) drop us a line at editor@fifthestate.co.uk with your three guesses. We’ll pick a winner from all the right answers – to whom a box of books will be winging out. You’ve got until next Friday, the 23rd November.

And to help you out here’s the final ‘blind’ analysis from our graphologist, Diane Simpson:

My first instinct when viewing this busy, untidy script was to sit back in my chair with screwed up eyes. If this was the spoken word then this would surely be a garrulous individual – not boring but simply with an overpowering desire to communicate. Regardless of all else, this will not be a ‘one book’ wonder.

The variable size and clever connections tells us that here we have someone with a vast reservoir of energy and willpower at her disposal and yet, oddly, a rather scattered motivation. So much to see, so much to do! This is a positive, very enthusiastic individual with real thirst for productivity that could well put other considerations into the shade.

Unlikely to be happy in the role of a leader, she tends to respond in a reactive rather than proactive way. She is strikingly observant. She keeps her options open as long as is possible and is particularly alert to the shades, nuances and implications of change.

Although apparently open, she is able to contain her reactions and responses and will deliberate in a positively Machiavellian way in order to gain her desired ends. A plotter par excellence!

Very much a ‘now’ person, she is highly project orientated and takes immense pleasure from a completion – which is all very well was it not for the sheer number of projects she is likely to maintain at any one time. The ease of writing flow indicates she favours free expression and has a particularly adept way of improvising; if something won’t work one way then there will always be another and another.

Interestingly public and private at the same time, she is unafraid of the public arena and yet neither craves nor needs attention that usually accompanies public life, in fact, in an odd sort of way, it is almost irrelevant.

This is a people-person who at the same time is extremely driven, independent and self-critical. Immensely creative and generally optimistic, she is almost sure to aim for a positive ending every time. Those complex links and connections point to problem solving as a real forte for this individual and she uses a combination of logic and intuition to achieve her ends.