For me being at Civitella meant not only linear progress in my writing, but also something more complicated, more organic, a return to the source of my obsessions, a more poetic and at the same time more challenging place. I mean that I think that my writing improved. This, of course, did not just happen inside my head, when I was alone. It happened because I had the opportunity to talk with my fellow Fellows, about different processes, and to tell them about my projects, doubts, and questions about things like political correctness or certain themes. The help I received from them, the support, the reading, their concern over my progress, meant that I had a whole team on my side, even when I was alone in front of my computer. My next book is Civitella, it’s each of the Fellows, it’s Castrabecco, the conversations, the music and painting and voice of each and every one of them: this is why it will be dedicated to my Fellows of Civitella.