Spontaneous or conscious?

When we write an application we tend to select every word carefully for the very obvious reason; trying our best to be as convincing, and as politely as possible. In other words, we are making a conscious attempt in trying to get across what we want to. We are careful to be error free also, especially when writing a job application.

A work of art (a prose piece, for instance) is a conscious attempt. Because each moment the writer knowingly tries to decide which word (or sentence structure) he should use so that he can transmit his idea successfully and accurately. But the goal of the writer here shifts from that of writing an application. In creating a literary art the job is still more difficult, as he has to reach to the other person's heart or stir up his emotion, so to say. Again the question of making the reader accept (or atleast agree to) his thought or viewpoint remains, however infinitesimal. The success, or rather its degree depends very much on how appropriate his expression of the idea is. He selects each word deliberately and carefully reflecting again and again on his choice. He reconsiders about how effectively he has been able to put the language into accomplishing his task. Before being able to give a full shape to his idea the writer has been doing conscious mental exercise successively over a period of time. Thus, he is consciously present everywhere in the narrative simply because the words or sentences are present. The ideas or scenes or incidents etc woven into the text are infact contrived by the writer himself. Therefore, even a work of art is a deliberate creation designed according to the writer's wish.

So, if it is necessary to be so much conscious, then, how can we claim that literary writing should always be 'spontaneous' or that an 'art (is) for art's sake' only? If even a word is chosen after a careful consideration of so many factors that by the time the it is finally selected the author has already entered into the territory of deliberate consciousness.

Therefore, I do not know how I can be spontaneous without actually being conscious.