Bad Art Friend

[kathleen_dailey]

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.