okay so this may be totally random and out there but... we were discussing in class the other day about the importance of decision making and I am reading Dante's Divine Comedy in another class and started making all of these random comparisons.
so yeah. decision making!
It's definitely important in the creative process because one decision will lead to another and making wrong decisions is fine because if you never try you'll never know. It's trial and error but as long as you pick something and stick to it you will benefit from it. I linked the importance of decision making to the Inferno because right when Dante and Virgil are about the enter hell there are the souls of those floating around behind a banner. They lived their life with "no blame and with no praise." Heaven cast them out and hell would not take them in. They never committed. They never took a stand. They never made a decision and never took any risks. Decision making is a powerful tool and is essential in the creative process. Nothing will ever be good or bad if you can't make up your mind. It's hard to be in the middle. Dante didn't half decide to write the Divine Comedy. You have to commit wholeheartedly to something and it is either going to be seen as a "heavenly" piece of work or a "what the hell was he/she thinking?" kind of work. If there was no decision process and deciding factor, than chances are that nothing was created because nothing was ever built upon the initial thought. The creation is nothing more than building blocks of ideas glued together by a firm decision. If the glue isn't strong and durable and if you don't put enough, then the blocks and ideas will fall apart.
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