I find that it is a combination of unconscious and conscious thought. The interests and opinions that have developed within a person are due to the life they have lived and the people they have known so far. The things that interest us are what flavour the things we do. Someone wouldn’t write something (willingly) unless it was something that they wanted to explore, something that inspired them – where else would the words come from? Since it is natural to write what interests us I think that the roots of anything someone writes is an unconscious reflection of them. They write about it because they are interested in it, but are most likely not considering how much of themselves they are revealing. This is most true in unplanned work. When someone just sits down and starts to write they are working completely off of the inspiration that has taken them, there isn’t any planning or second-thinking to take the story away from the person’s self, or to add in the thought, “if I add this, it’ll really show who I am”. When someone writes in the moment every description, connection, and interpretation that is made is coming straight from who they are and what they think.
Even when working with a range of characters the author can still be found in all of them. The villain in stories reflect what the writer sees as villainous, and in turn, the protagonists created show different idealisms that the author holds, and perhaps wishes to embody.
This isn’t to say that one cannot ever be aware or plan to put themselves into their work. Of course someone can decide to write about themselves, or want to create a work of writing that embodies who they are. This would then make the incorporation of themselves into their work a very conscious thing.
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