The Devil You Know | Deckard Shaw x Reader [STOPPED UPDATING]

[a/n] Update on the book's status

Hello there! It's been a long time... And it's all my fault. The story hasn't really moved on in almost a year now. But that's changing! See, some good news from me, finally.

This a/n is gonna be made of two parts: in the first, I will explain what's going to happen to this book, and in the second I'll update my life situation stuff I mentioned in the last a/n.

The book

It hasn't been forgotten. I haven't moved on from Deckard, even though some of the readers might have. It's still getting a tone of reads too, so I'm feeling guiltier and guiltier every time I open up wattpad.

Story-wise I've explained myself in the previous a/n already. To make it short, I think my story is shit, it's too long and has a very long period in the beginning without Decks aka your story gets developed. I also feel like my writing is a disaster. The response was majorly positive and someone even liked my idea of making a one-shot book for the time being. Which I kinda started doing but failed to continue, and post... I haven't deleted it, thank god, so I can still post it later.

Onto the important/good part of this update. I've found enjoyment in life yet again so after I finish school at the end of June I'll be working on the book. 🎉 I'll be rewriting the first chapters first. The problem is that I don't know how I should do it.

My first idea was to delete this book and make a new one, only having the new and rewritten chapters there. On the other hand that would kinda lose me all the star thingies and all the reads it's gotten over this period of time. Some of the readers who don't read the a/n's might get confused by this book not existing and wouldn't know about the new one published.

My second idea was to rewrite the chapters here, delete the text in the old ones and put the new text. This would keep the reads and stars, but there might be changed story elements and would confuse someone who hasn't read the new version. The comments also wouldn't match up, especially the ones covering a specific part of the text.

My third idea is marking the old chapters with [old] and leaving them in while the rewritten ones get posted before or after them (public opinion would help on the choice).

For now, the third idea is my favourite.

My life

I have an Instagram account now. I do art stuff, traditional and digital drawings mostly, some irl stuff and so on and so forth. My tag is @biidovah

Next, I've been through some shit in the last couple of months. At the end of February, I ended a toxic "friendship" and everything took its final toll on me. My emotions were confused and uncontrollable. In the end, I had to revisit my psychologist after my mum was pissed at me and my schoolwork. The psychologist tore me and my feelings apart (I'm suspecting the point of her work is to make me cry like a little bitch every time she sees me) and now we're still working on my feelings.

I'm a lot better since then. I've learned that hating someone with four friends because of the same and similar reasons can be beneficial.

Continuing to something more positive, I'm getting my hair cut half its length and dyed from turquoise to purple. I'm also getting a job after trying to get one for two months.

And that's kinda it. So, I guess this is goodbye.