In my varied career, I have learned one very important thing: the value of completing one's work: it is immense, greater than you may think.

In completing something, true birth takes place. It is at that moment, and only at that moment, that the work becomes more than a dream, a folly of imagination. So, from an artistic point of view, it is in its completion that the work finds its meaning. Just like the article on dramaturgical resolution I wrote a few weeks ago.

But it is not only this aspect that benefits completion. The artist, too, in completing the work, while experiencing separation trauma, proceeds to a different stage, one of taking stock, retrospection almost, that allows him to look to the future in a different way. Rich in his production, which gives him strength (both inwardly, but also in a concrete, outward way, in an exchange of monetary value that gives him the possibility of thinking that his art is also his bread), the 'artist, with completion, is strengthened.

But it is the third aspect that is most important. The one that I have understood on my own skin. He who completes, is reliable. And that, in a world as fluid and fast-paced as ours, is gold. He who completes is a monolith confirming to the world that "what he says, he does." Reliability is an important value for the artist. I think that every time a person reads me, they knowingly choose to give me their time. And time is so precious that it has no definite value. Time is given only to the reliable artist, because the fear of wasting time, of wasting it on something that then, after all, is neither transformative nor exciting, is like a sword of Damocles.

Let me give you a concrete example: Fellini, or more recently Spielberg. Two incredible geniuses, who have shown, throughout their careers, to always be attentive to their work, to conclude it, to give, every few years, a work. This made it possible to predispose the audience to listen attentively to their works. And only attentive eyes and ears can pick up the artist's signals.

So, the artist who completes, in a sense, predisposes reality to listening.

And what does he want, an artist, if not to be heard?

Have you guys managed to finish incredible projects? Do you have something unfinished that screams at you daily to be finished? I look forward to seeing you in the comments.

Small side note: the next four episodes of "Artist's Diary" will be the first four chapters of the first volume of "Saturn's Ring." You will be able to listen and read them, just as you listen and read these diary pages. And you will also be able to comment on them, if you like. You know that I always read and respond most of the time, when I can.

I hope you enjoy this journey I offer, and that you will share it, each time, with those you think might be entertained by this story I have written.