Bad Art Friend

Well, the one point that none of the excited and agitated commenters on Robert Kolker's NYT mag story have (yet) made is that Dawn Dorland has forgotten, or maybe never knew, a central truth about writers: nothing is safe from them. One talks (posts, blogs, muses) to or even in the presence of a writer at one's own risk. Anything one says or does is fair game for a writer to use in her work, something that most of us learned at a very early stage of writerly development.

Or, in other words, what a whiner.