One lacking love to write article as a means to forget (8)
I believe the answer is:
nepenthe
'a means to forget' is the definition.
(drug causing memory loss in Greek myth)
'one lacking love to write article' is the wordplay.
'lacking' is a deletion indicator.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'to write' becomes 'pen' ('pen' can be a synonym of 'write').
'article' becomes 'the' (the 'definite article' part of speech).
'one' with 'o' taken out is 'ne'.
'ne'+'pen'+'the'='NEPENTHE'
'as' is the link.
(Other definitions for nepenthe that I've seen before include "Pitcher-plant" , "drink to forget" , "sleep-inducing drug" , "pain reliever" , "The drink causing sorrow to be forgotten, poetically" .)