How to Write About Retrograde Amnesias: Amnesia Part 2

RETROGRADE AMNESIAS Recently, I got the privilege to assist Denise Hunter with her latest book “Before We Were Us” (just released in September, it’s great – go read it!) where the heroine suffers a severe head injury and gets amnesia. Denise needed to use temporally-graded retrograde amnesia for this story. The heroine forgets her current boyfriend (the hero had the …

Writing About Transient Global Amnesia

Amnesia, Part I A tale of three worlds. If you plan to use amnesia in a novel, it’s important to know what type of amnesia your character has, how they got it, and what differences exist between the types. Writers often use amnesia as a device to strip a character of important information and/or put them in a new situation. …