2. To reach for and examine universals (both truths, lies and what lies in between.)

3. To take my subconscious and give it structure.

4. To pay homage to my influences. To twist and intertwine them. By mixing diverse influence you create a new whole.

5.. To explore my political and moral awareness. Without ideas, without theories there is, for me, no point at all.

6. To touch real emotions. To create entities with natural emotional elements.

7. To search for beauty (both sweet and ugly).

8. To give something to the audience. To be aware of the reader/viewer. Not necessarily to give them what they want but more to be aware of their reactions (as much as is possible).

9. To create characters who can never be categorised as evil. Evil does not exist, or not at least within the individual.

10. To expose people to things that make them think and emote but not judge.

11. To explore every medium that is available to me.

12. To comment in particular on the society that surrounds me, both directly and indirectly.

13. To avoid compromise whilst taking in and understanding others opinions of my work. Only to change what I truly believe is wrong.

14. To be aware of causing offence, not to avoid it but to be aware of it.

15. To let the work be itself. If what I write says things to people I didn’t intend it to not to change it. People can choose what ideas and morals to have. It is not the place of the writer.

16. To show not tell, within reason. If something must be told, it must be told.

17.. To be aware of conventions but not afraid of ignoring or using them. Both literary conventions and cliches and the conventions and cliches of the world at large.

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