Dec. 2nd, 2011

Yu Wo is running a contest this month for Legend of Sun Knight.

Reader's Reaction Contest
Write an essay under 8000 characters about your reaction to and thoughts about either volume 8 of LSK or the whole series. Deadline is 12/26, 12 PM noon. There'll be three winners, announced on 1/5 or earlier! First place winner will receive two sets of Yu Wo's novels, a new bundle for Kill No More that will be released during winter, some goodies for LSK and Kill No More that will be released in winter, and a new years card from Yu Wo. 2nd-3rd place receive one less novel set and don't receive goodies for Kill No More. Winners' essays will be printed in a newspaper.

Art Contest
No restriction on topic. Color, black and white, realistic, chibi, etc is all okay. Art must be complete. May only submit one drawing (even for comics). Must be safe for minors. Deadline is 12/31, 12 PM noon. There'll be three winners, 1 first place. (Same prize division as for writing). Winners' art will be printed in a newspaper.

Essays and art are to be posted directly as replies to the threads. So many awesome essays already! *reads some* Oh, oh, I could never write better than that. In fact, I can't even write an essay in Chinese. I want to enter though. (Darn, why does my art suck so much? I can't wriiiiite in Chinese.) For fans that don't speak Chinese but do draw, the art contest is a great opportunity! Yu Wo has answered that fans overseas may enter too. As long as you are reachable by EMS. shipping

Questions about the contest go here.
Random spectator comments go here.
So some people asked for a summary of Volume 8. This is...a pseudo summary...pseudo translation...thing. It is too long to be a summary, haha...I thought I'd include all the details so I could refer back to this for fic purposes. Except... this got too detailed. I am terrible at summaries. OTL I do wish I have time to do this for all the novels, but er, with shorter summaries. I reread them all for the sake of writing Bittersweet Sweetness, but I didn't take any notes! Now I'm forgetting all the details again. /bad memory

Please only read this if you don't mind being spoiled, and please do not spoil other people about the ending. Please do not copy and paste this elsewhere, as it is riddled with mistakes and I cannot fix them if this gets posted elsewhere. Please do read actual translations when translators get around to it and don't let this take the place of their hard work. Also consider hoping over to Yu Wo's blog entry to let her know your thoughts, either about volume 8 or LSK in general. I'm sure she'll appreciate English responses too! (But don't mention this post please).

I've included long and short version summaries of each chapter, with my thoughts following each! I would love to hear other people's reactions to this novel. If anyone does read this, let me know your thoughts about the book! I'm bursting to talk about it. :)

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Summary Part 2