Kester R. Park, Author

A colourful, densely detailed child's digital drawing featuring a cast of fantastical characters on a white background. Central figures include a tall pink humanoid figure with a dotted face and green eyes, a yellow round creature with a smiley face, and a brown rabbit-like character playing a saxophone on the left. In the upper area, a yellow sun-like face wearing sunglasses appears top-left, a pink salamander or lizard climbs a brown figure in the centre-right, and a large pink fuzzy monster with a yellow zigzag pattern stands top-right. The lower portion shows a blue ground or water area populated with smaller characters including a figure with a purple helmet, a brown smiling creature bottom-right, and a green masked figure. Green plants and grass are scattered throughout. The word "mateo" appears as a label near the centre-right. The overall style is energetic and imaginative, consistent with children's digital artwork. Slide indicator reads 1/21.

A picture drawn with my student in our final class.

It took me a while to realise the novel I finished in 2024 had a good amount of alien travelogue in it, at least that's what a portion of it boiled down to, t'was fun too

Hello!

Period Film Wades Through Historic Mud, Gets Everything Dirty Film Review #1

Read my review of The Dig (2021), a film which attempts to correct one historical item while managing to blur fact with fiction on several others.

#WritingCommunity #film-review #history #archaeology #philosophy #dark-ages #sutton-woo #criticism #historical-correction #historical-fiction

I guess Hurricane as it's the only one I've bothered to download.

Time Traveller Short Note #2

Read my account of how time travel would turn us into 'little green men'.

#WritingCommunity #time-travel #ethics #observation #sci-fi #alien-abduction #role-reversal #reasoning

I'm really starting to hate these little Russian Dolls.

They're so full of themselves.

That was an interesting one. People took it in different ways.

Dear Applicant Dear Applicant

Read my latest short piece of writing, Dear Applicant, at kesterparkauthor.substack.com/p/dear-appli...

It is an effort to subvert the formal language of official rejection into a statement of motivation and community.

#WritingCommunity #letter #rejection #advice #support #winner #loser #metaphor

From now on, please visit my blog at kesterparkauthor.blogspot.com instead of its former domain.

Thank you.

My whole website seems to be down just now unfortunately. Hopefully it will be temporary.

I've changed my mind. It should be;

Life is a magazine, and you are the issue.

It also acts as a directrix, but that's just a sideline. #mathpuns

A possible translation for the math phobic;

Life is a story, and you are the sentence. 😉

Life is an arc, and you are the tangent.

#WritingCommunity #philsky

Backlit to disguise any indications of zombification - well thought!

I'm looking for suggestions of what to cover in a special series of interviews when I reach my 500th podcast episode: things I should have covered in past series, but missed out!

More explanation here:

www.historyofphilosophy.net/suggestions-...

Thanks in advance!

#philsky #philosophy

Happy Ending - Will you tell me a story?

Read my short story Happy Ending about a man telling his son a story about a family struggling on a distant planet.

#story #happiness #tragedy #betrayal #father-and-son #alien-world #sci-fi #drought #monsoon #rain #death #family #journey #dialogue #compassion #WritingCommunity

Wishing Upon a Star How To Interpret a Bad Review

Read my first substack article on how to adopt a positive mindset towards bad reviews

#article #reviews #star-ratings #amazon #writers #demographics #writing-advice #interpretation #perspective #subjectivity #one-star-review #goodreads #marketing #audience #WritingCommunity

Subscribe to Kester's Substack My personal Substack. Click to read Kester's Substack, by Kester R. Park, a Substack publication. Launched an hour ago.

I've had my blogger.com site for nearly two years now and it's been broadly speaking positive, but now it seems that it might be time to try something new. To subscribe to my substack, click the link below. Any pledges would be warmly welcomed, but no pressure!

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Read my article about the mechanics of a method for self-improvement, Talking About Yourself in the Third Person, here:

#article #existentialism #self #feng-shui #self-distancing #cognitive-dissonance #identity #behavioral-psychology #self-improvement #phenomenology #WritingCommunity

Read my poem and first published villanelle about love at a distance, A Thousand Leagues away, at: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2026/01/a-th...

#betrayal #continents #distance #dreams #guilt #introspective #leagues #love #metaphor #nature #poem #poetry #protection #romance #WritingCommunity

Thank you. I did have a good birthday. Thanks for your kind comments about the poem. It was fun to write!

Read my poem about searching for the deepest and most intimate part of yourself, My Name, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2026/01/my-n...

#becoming, #commendment, #deep, #embodiment, #existence, #free-verse, #identity, #intimacy, #name, #poem, #ritual, #search, #selfhood, #voice, #WritingCommunity

Check out my freshly made index of everything on my blog, and read whatever takes your fancy!

www.kesterparkauthor.net/p/index.html

PS It's my birthday, so you have to!

#WritingCommunity

Read my poem, I Prefer Not To, about product or service review requests: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2026/01/i-pr...

#anti-capitalism, #anticorporate, #Bartleby, #capitalism, #corporatism, #poem, #political, #protest, #refusal, #reviews, #rhyme, #satire, #self-mockery, #WritingCommunity

Read my poem, I Prefer Not To, about product or service review requests: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2026/01/i-pr...

#anti-capitalism, #anticorporate, #Bartleby, #capitalism, #corporatism, #poem, #political, #protest, #refusal, #reviews, #rhyme, #satire, #self-mockery, #WritingCommunity

Read my poem, The Thirty-First of December, about why we celebrate endings at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/12/the-...

#celebration, #completion, #destiny, #divine, #endings, #existence, #faith, #fate, #flow, #free-verse, #perfection, #poem, #universe, #WritingCommunity, #philsky

Read my poem, Soul Bridge, about metaphysical love at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/12/soul...

#body, #bridge, #dance, #intimacy, #love, #meeting, #metaphysical, #metphor, #poem, #rhyme, #romance, #sex, #soul, #WritingCommunity