Will Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, or any other novelist, ever describe, in depth and detail, how fiction writing is actually done?

My June 29, 2015 post quotes Stephen King on writing, from his book On Writing (2000) and other sources. Those quotations get to the heart of fiction writing. But King never actually discusses these things in any depth or detail. And neither have any other novelists.

The reason that novelists never discuss their creative process in any depth or detail is that the part of the novelist’s mind that is speaking about writing is not the only part of the novelist’s mind that is responsible for the writing.

As King’s quotations imply, the part of his mind that wrote On Writing is only one part of his mind, and this one part does not know the whole story of his writing process.

Moreover, the novelist’s regular “host” personality may be afraid of knowing too much about the writing process. Like Adam and Eve, they may fear that eating from the tree of knowledge might get them kicked out of the Garden of Eden.

However, they needn’t worry. The hidden parts of their mind—once assured that they will not be banished—would be only too happy to tell their story.