Sergio Esquivias
@sergioesquivias.bsky.social
I am creating a platform to share my insights on literature and cinema while connecting with fellow creators.
I'm writing on Medium : https://medium.com/@sergioesquivias
I'm writing on Medium : https://medium.com/@sergioesquivias
Reposted by Sergio Esquivias
Stephen King’s books were censored 206 times, according to PEN America, with “Carrie” and “The Stand” among the 87 of his works affected. https://to.pbs.org/4pXH5Gr
Stephen King is the most banned author in U.S. schools, PEN report says
PEN America's "Banned in the USA," released Wednesday, tracks over 6,800 instances of books being pulled for the 2024-2025 school year.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Stephen King’s books were censored 206 times, according to PEN America, with “Carrie” and “The Stand” among the 87 of his works affected. https://to.pbs.org/4pXH5Gr
Reposted by Sergio Esquivias
If the 264 million students enrolled in higher education around the globe were a country, it would be the fifth most populous in the world
go.nature.com/46jJHGK
go.nature.com/46jJHGK
The great university shake-up: four charts show how global higher education is changing
More students than ever are studying across international borders, but where and what they learn is shifting.
go.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
If the 264 million students enrolled in higher education around the globe were a country, it would be the fifth most populous in the world
go.nature.com/46jJHGK
go.nature.com/46jJHGK
Hi readers and writers! After buying a second-hand book, one question comes to mind: do you often buy old books, or do you prefer to buy new ones?
#booksky #writingcommunity #authors
#booksky #writingcommunity #authors
January 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hi readers and writers! After buying a second-hand book, one question comes to mind: do you often buy old books, or do you prefer to buy new ones?
#booksky #writingcommunity #authors
#booksky #writingcommunity #authors
"Writing comes out of plurality. If you want to write, your life’s experience is more than enough to validate you as an author."
#WritingCommunity #Authors #Booksy #Writingandbooks
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It is Not Too Late to Overcome Imposter Syndrome
Dealing with the voices in your head telling you your work sucks
medium.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Writing comes out of plurality. If you want to write, your life’s experience is more than enough to validate you as an author."
#WritingCommunity #Authors #Booksy #Writingandbooks
medium.com/@sergioesqui...
I've never come across an AI-written book, mainly because I don't shop on Amazon unless I can't find it elsewhere. By buying from my local bookshop, I ensure that I'm supporting a real author and providing myself with a work of quality.
#Authors #Booksky #readersky
#Authors #Booksky #readersky
Listen up! 🙏
How are authors responding to AI-written books? Do we change writing style, stop publishing on Amazon, stop writing altogether? Are mainstream publishers complicit producing AI books themselves? Readers can't tell the difference. Who has solutions? 📚
#booksky #authorsky #readersky
How are authors responding to AI-written books? Do we change writing style, stop publishing on Amazon, stop writing altogether? Are mainstream publishers complicit producing AI books themselves? Readers can't tell the difference. Who has solutions? 📚
#booksky #authorsky #readersky
January 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I've never come across an AI-written book, mainly because I don't shop on Amazon unless I can't find it elsewhere. By buying from my local bookshop, I ensure that I'm supporting a real author and providing myself with a work of quality.
#Authors #Booksky #readersky
#Authors #Booksky #readersky
As always, one of my New Year's resolutions was to read a book every week. I haven't even opened the book I was supposed to read in week one. Not a big deal, I guess...
#BookSky #Readers #WritingCommunity #Authors
#BookSky #Readers #WritingCommunity #Authors
January 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
As always, one of my New Year's resolutions was to read a book every week. I haven't even opened the book I was supposed to read in week one. Not a big deal, I guess...
#BookSky #Readers #WritingCommunity #Authors
#BookSky #Readers #WritingCommunity #Authors
While we can be assured that AI is not going to replace writers, it is indeed shaping the way we edit books and present them to readers. Rather than fearing the takeover of machines to substitute humans, we should observe how the editorial world is adapting to AI.
#Authors #Books #Discover #News
#Authors #Books #Discover #News
Is AI devaluing book publishing? Artificial intelligence is pushing the publishing world toward volume. That could drown out the good work. www.fastcompany.com/91236515/how... #writingandbooks #booksky #skylibrarian #Discover #writestuff #Saturdayvibes #publishers #editors
How AI is accelerating—and devaluing—book publishing
Artificial intelligence is pushing the publishing world toward volume. That could drown out the good work.
www.fastcompany.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Humans create while machines imitate"
AI will never replace artists. In this article I wrote on Medium, I explain why machines can never truly be compatible with art.
medium.com/readers-club...
#WritingCommunity #Authors #Art #BookSky #Discover #WritingandBooks
AI will never replace artists. In this article I wrote on Medium, I explain why machines can never truly be compatible with art.
medium.com/readers-club...
#WritingCommunity #Authors #Art #BookSky #Discover #WritingandBooks
Why AI Will Never Replace Human Writers?
AI imitates, and humans create
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January 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"Humans create while machines imitate"
AI will never replace artists. In this article I wrote on Medium, I explain why machines can never truly be compatible with art.
medium.com/readers-club...
#WritingCommunity #Authors #Art #BookSky #Discover #WritingandBooks
AI will never replace artists. In this article I wrote on Medium, I explain why machines can never truly be compatible with art.
medium.com/readers-club...
#WritingCommunity #Authors #Art #BookSky #Discover #WritingandBooks
Fiction enables a connection between two worlds. For children, when the line between fiction and reality is not yet clear, reading from a young age becomes a profoundly shaping experience. Let’s encourage reading habits in children.
#reading #WritingCommunity #writing
#reading #WritingCommunity #writing
When I read books as a kid, they didn’t just entertain me, they changed the way I felt about the world. They seemed like magic — portals to places where anything was possible.
I thought, “I want to do THAT.”
I wanted to create more of that experience, not just for myself, but for others.
#writing
I thought, “I want to do THAT.”
I wanted to create more of that experience, not just for myself, but for others.
#writing
December 18, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Fiction enables a connection between two worlds. For children, when the line between fiction and reality is not yet clear, reading from a young age becomes a profoundly shaping experience. Let’s encourage reading habits in children.
#reading #WritingCommunity #writing
#reading #WritingCommunity #writing
This is a question for readers and writers: Do you read or find inspiration for your future novels by reading theater plays?
Do you think it is important to read them, or do you consider theater to be a genre separate from literature?
#WritingCommunity #WritingandBooks #Authors #Art
Do you think it is important to read them, or do you consider theater to be a genre separate from literature?
#WritingCommunity #WritingandBooks #Authors #Art
December 15, 2024 at 6:15 PM
This is a question for readers and writers: Do you read or find inspiration for your future novels by reading theater plays?
Do you think it is important to read them, or do you consider theater to be a genre separate from literature?
#WritingCommunity #WritingandBooks #Authors #Art
Do you think it is important to read them, or do you consider theater to be a genre separate from literature?
#WritingCommunity #WritingandBooks #Authors #Art
Fiction is already an entertaining way to present reality. Fiction unwraps reality and reveals hidden meanings of the world. But we should be wary—a book should be 'entertaining' in a pedagogical sense; it should be didactic while giving meaning, not merely a diversion.
#Writing #Authors
#Writing #Authors
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 14 Is it okay for a book to be purely entertainment, or must it have meaning?
I write to entertain. If there is a meaning to it, that's secondary.
Of course, there always IS a meaning, but I don't need to hit my reader of the head with that.
I write to entertain. If there is a meaning to it, that's secondary.
Of course, there always IS a meaning, but I don't need to hit my reader of the head with that.
December 14, 2024 at 10:45 AM
It helps me a lot. It allows me to connect with other writers, create an audience, and share my ideas with others.
It all depends on what your goals are.
It all depends on what your goals are.
December 13, 2024 at 6:04 PM
It helps me a lot. It allows me to connect with other writers, create an audience, and share my ideas with others.
It all depends on what your goals are.
It all depends on what your goals are.
Art cannot be subject to the same laws as the market. Art is not a product. Ideas cannot die or expire. If the market says a genre is dead, it is more like saying, "This topic is no longer a trend."
Seeing authors get big deals in a genre publishing claims is dead always makes me wonder, does anyone really know what the market is doing?? #Author #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
December 13, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Art cannot be subject to the same laws as the market. Art is not a product. Ideas cannot die or expire. If the market says a genre is dead, it is more like saying, "This topic is no longer a trend."
I mean, what is the point of having an AI model write your stories for you? Writers are the ones who are supposed to share their worldview, offer new insights, and make the world visible and sensible through their words—not machines.
#WritingCommunity #Writing #BookSky #Authors
#WritingCommunity #Writing #BookSky #Authors
Is anyone else just *not interested* in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way.
December 12, 2024 at 9:06 AM
I mean, what is the point of having an AI model write your stories for you? Writers are the ones who are supposed to share their worldview, offer new insights, and make the world visible and sensible through their words—not machines.
#WritingCommunity #Writing #BookSky #Authors
#WritingCommunity #Writing #BookSky #Authors
Not my foundational texts. But every time I travel, I feel the necessity of taking something from that place with me: of course, it is a book. In my personal library, you could find books in Yiddish, Polish, Czech, Spanish, English, Italian, Provençal, and Armenian.
#Booksky #Books #WritingandBooks
#Booksky #Books #WritingandBooks
I love looking at people’s personal libraries. Especially the books that people tell me they read over and over throughout their lives.
It’s like seeing the foundational texts of someone’s life, values and interests.
What are your personal foundational texts?
It’s like seeing the foundational texts of someone’s life, values and interests.
What are your personal foundational texts?
December 11, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Not my foundational texts. But every time I travel, I feel the necessity of taking something from that place with me: of course, it is a book. In my personal library, you could find books in Yiddish, Polish, Czech, Spanish, English, Italian, Provençal, and Armenian.
#Booksky #Books #WritingandBooks
#Booksky #Books #WritingandBooks
#BookSky
What are your top reads of 2024? Here are mine:
The Life of Courage by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Down There by J.K. Huysmans
Débat de Folie et d'Amour by Louise Labé
Le Chemin de Damas I by August Strindberg
What are your top reads of 2024? Here are mine:
The Life of Courage by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Down There by J.K. Huysmans
Débat de Folie et d'Amour by Louise Labé
Le Chemin de Damas I by August Strindberg
#BookSky
What are your top reads of 2024?
I’m finishing up a few books now, and think I’ve come up with a solid top five.
•Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
•Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
•On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
•The Plantaganets by Dan Jones
•24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak
What are your top reads of 2024?
I’m finishing up a few books now, and think I’ve come up with a solid top five.
•Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
•Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
•On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
•The Plantaganets by Dan Jones
•24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak
December 11, 2024 at 7:35 PM
#BookSky
What are your top reads of 2024? Here are mine:
The Life of Courage by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Down There by J.K. Huysmans
Débat de Folie et d'Amour by Louise Labé
Le Chemin de Damas I by August Strindberg
What are your top reads of 2024? Here are mine:
The Life of Courage by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Down There by J.K. Huysmans
Débat de Folie et d'Amour by Louise Labé
Le Chemin de Damas I by August Strindberg
I grew up in Guadalajara, México. When November approaches, the city hosts one of the biggest book fairs, the FIL (International Book Festival). My father took me every year and began my journey into reading and writing. It was fun; I finished with my hands full of books.
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 11. When did you first start reading? How enthusiastically (or not!) did you take to it?
Learned it age 6. Loved it from the start.
I remember sitting in the stable & reading out loud to the horses.
To this day, I wonder how many people walked past & had a blast 😂
Learned it age 6. Loved it from the start.
I remember sitting in the stable & reading out loud to the horses.
To this day, I wonder how many people walked past & had a blast 😂
December 11, 2024 at 10:05 AM
I grew up in Guadalajara, México. When November approaches, the city hosts one of the biggest book fairs, the FIL (International Book Festival). My father took me every year and began my journey into reading and writing. It was fun; I finished with my hands full of books.
Reposted by Sergio Esquivias
Submissions Call: @fictivedream.bsky.social
The online magazine dedicated to the short story.
Open to submissions all year round.
Publishing stories of between 500 & 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online
👇
www.writing.ie/resources/fi...
#writers
The online magazine dedicated to the short story.
Open to submissions all year round.
Publishing stories of between 500 & 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online
👇
www.writing.ie/resources/fi...
#writers
December 11, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Submissions Call: @fictivedream.bsky.social
The online magazine dedicated to the short story.
Open to submissions all year round.
Publishing stories of between 500 & 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online
👇
www.writing.ie/resources/fi...
#writers
The online magazine dedicated to the short story.
Open to submissions all year round.
Publishing stories of between 500 & 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online
👇
www.writing.ie/resources/fi...
#writers
"When books are treated like products, something vital is lost."
I encountered this beautiful piece on Medium; you should go and read it. This is true: books and arts should not be seen as simple products.
#writer #art #writingcommunity #writingandbooks
medium.com/writing-coop...
I encountered this beautiful piece on Medium; you should go and read it. This is true: books and arts should not be seen as simple products.
#writer #art #writingcommunity #writingandbooks
medium.com/writing-coop...
The Lost Art of Slow Writing
How consumerism turned books into fast fashion and changed readers' expectations
medium.com
December 10, 2024 at 10:58 PM
"When books are treated like products, something vital is lost."
I encountered this beautiful piece on Medium; you should go and read it. This is true: books and arts should not be seen as simple products.
#writer #art #writingcommunity #writingandbooks
medium.com/writing-coop...
I encountered this beautiful piece on Medium; you should go and read it. This is true: books and arts should not be seen as simple products.
#writer #art #writingcommunity #writingandbooks
medium.com/writing-coop...
I love what @archive.org is doing. I advocate for the democratization of culture, access to important works, and allowing free access to information. It is crucial to create such spaces in these times.
#writingcommunity #authors #Discovery #News #writing
#writingcommunity #authors #Discovery #News #writing
December 9, 2024 at 8:57 PM
I love what @archive.org is doing. I advocate for the democratization of culture, access to important works, and allowing free access to information. It is crucial to create such spaces in these times.
#writingcommunity #authors #Discovery #News #writing
#writingcommunity #authors #Discovery #News #writing
Some days ago, I asked whether you prefer to write by hand or by computer. I've now written an article exploring this subject. Here are my experiences and why I think it is important to return to writing by hand. Enjoy the read!
#Writtingcommunity #authors #book #WritingandBooks #Discover
#Writtingcommunity #authors #book #WritingandBooks #Discover
How Has Writing by Hand Saved My Craft?
The reasons you should migrate your writing to a simple notebook
long.sweet.pub
December 9, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Some days ago, I asked whether you prefer to write by hand or by computer. I've now written an article exploring this subject. Here are my experiences and why I think it is important to return to writing by hand. Enjoy the read!
#Writtingcommunity #authors #book #WritingandBooks #Discover
#Writtingcommunity #authors #book #WritingandBooks #Discover
I’ve been struck by a question for all the writers out there on Bluesky: Do you have a certain ritual that’s essential before you can start writing? For me, I need to wake up early, grab a cup of coffee, and gaze at the mountains through the window. What about you?
#writingcommunity #authors #book
#writingcommunity #authors #book
December 8, 2024 at 8:30 AM
I’ve been struck by a question for all the writers out there on Bluesky: Do you have a certain ritual that’s essential before you can start writing? For me, I need to wake up early, grab a cup of coffee, and gaze at the mountains through the window. What about you?
#writingcommunity #authors #book
#writingcommunity #authors #book
Reposted by Sergio Esquivias
Daily #writingprompt:
Does your sleep paralysis demon get along with the monster under your bed? What's their relationship?
Does your sleep paralysis demon get along with the monster under your bed? What's their relationship?
December 7, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Daily #writingprompt:
Does your sleep paralysis demon get along with the monster under your bed? What's their relationship?
Does your sleep paralysis demon get along with the monster under your bed? What's their relationship?
Hi writers! I was wondering: how do you prefer to write—by hand or on a computer?
If you’ve tried both, how was your experience? Did anything change? Is it more pleasant to write by hand? Or more practical on a computer?
#writingcommunity #authors #book
If you’ve tried both, how was your experience? Did anything change? Is it more pleasant to write by hand? Or more practical on a computer?
#writingcommunity #authors #book
December 7, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Hi writers! I was wondering: how do you prefer to write—by hand or on a computer?
If you’ve tried both, how was your experience? Did anything change? Is it more pleasant to write by hand? Or more practical on a computer?
#writingcommunity #authors #book
If you’ve tried both, how was your experience? Did anything change? Is it more pleasant to write by hand? Or more practical on a computer?
#writingcommunity #authors #book