I started filming "Ladies' Paradise" again. It's amazing how acting affects my imagination.

I often realize that by dint of hanging out with a character, I absorb his desires, his fears, which are then reflected in my writing. Tancredi in this period of Set is going through some very strong, powerful experiences that call his whole life into question. And whether by osmosis or sensitivity, I do the same with the characters I write. Sometimes I even create situations similar to those I faced on the set, as if to project elsewhere what I experienced "really."

This communicating of limbs from my body to my mind, to my heart, is a real blessing.

I am writing assiduously. I am taking care of the drafting of what needs to happen in each volume of the saga. The first volume is complete, the second volume was already clear, so easy. The other three, however, required a lot of imagination to complete so as to continue carrying the torch of interest. It will be a not inconsiderable exercise in narrative dexterity, but I'm hopeful, because I'm having a lot of fun creating twists and turns. And that's a good sign.

In the saga of Saturn's ring, fate will be at the center of the poetics, an important voice. Of course, when dealing with the textures of fate, you can't not consider free will. Choices.

Sometimes, as I stand on the street and walk with my headphones through the stream of people coming at me, I wonder how it is possible that there are so many realities all close to each other. Humanity seems like a multidimensional organism, where each of us has different desires, fears, goals, friends, relatives, histories and ambitions.

Yet, we are all connected by the choices we make on a daily basis. The famous "free will."

But if we were to go back to the origins of everything-"The Chain of Guilt" as Kato calls them-could we really talk about free will? I did not choose my name, not even where to be born, what time to live in, what body to be in. These are variables that greatly influence our future.

For example, I have my doubts that if I had not grown up a pretty boy I would have been an actor.... Maybe life would have taken me to other horizons. Maybe I would have taken up writing right away. Or I would have studied at Bocconi. Or, or or... There is no end to imagination.

The fact remains that we are the product of our own choices, but also of those of others. My characters, in the saga -- but also in the divine adventure -- are often confronted with critical choices, that is, choices that do not allow for turning back. I find that they are crucial to a good story. For in those choices the characters' character is forged and defined: In the actions that follow.

I believe more in action than in words. In the end, the facts speak for themselves.

The two protagonists of Saturn's Ring, who at first are little more than teenagers - young adults as the professionals would say - will make choices, either by will or by fate. And these choices, each of these choices, like the flutter of a butterfly, will over time have deflagrating effects.

And given that I like to play with magic, even fate will be involved....

Love and Fate, two opposite entities that in the saga will have to clash, meet, get to know, and who knows maybe love.