Satan, Lucifer and the devil walk into a bar

I am not sure who comes up with these rules.

Anyway, to be grammatically correct, you must always capitalize "Satan." However, "devil" and "satanic" do not receive such recognition. And just to finish of the unholy trinity of names, you must always capitalize "Lucifer."

Write Drunk...

"WRITE DRUNK, REVISE SOBER"
-- Miller Williams, former poet laureate

Good advice if taken literally. Great advice if taken metaphorically.

The first draft of anything sucks fails to accurately represent what one means. It is through editing that we realize what we actually meant to write.

A book convinced me to write this post

I was reading a section of a grammar book when I came upon an interesting point.

The following phrase is incorrect:
"Timmy convinced me to walk with him to school."

The verb convince cannot have an action follow it. You can convince someone that the world is round (an idea). But you cannot convince someone to act. It is grammatically incorrect to do so. In a nutshell, the verb convince cannot be followed by an infinitive.

The best replacement for the incorrect convince would be the word persuade.
A book persuaded me to write this post.