How to write about Dissociative Amnesia AND GET IT RIGHT. WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU? Really– who am I? This is the question asked repeatedly by a person suffering from Dissociative Amnesia. It’s distressing to say the least. Who are you? Is the other question they ask over and over, because they may have no memories of their …
Right after I posted the frostbite article, https://novelmalpractice.com/novel-malpractice-writing-about-frostbite/ another writer on Facebook asked how chilblains was related. Talk about right on the money! Dickens wrote about chilblains, as did another favorite author, Charlotte Bronte, in Jane Eyre. The POV character Jane writes about getting chilblains in the charity school for orphans, Lowood, during winter. (Is “Low wood” a pun …