Hi all,
So I’ve written approximately 676,567.pi versions of the first 40 pages of this book, and I’ve finally realized the truth… Satan just needs to be a major character in the opening sequence. It doesn’t work to do it any other way. I’ve tried! I’ve been driven to the edge of insanity by trying every other conceivable plot device, and Satan must be there. Relief and happiness are mine. 
That is all. I wonder if this ever happens to anybody else??
Yep. Happens to me like every other Thursday, pretty much like clockwork.
I’m not a book or fanfiction writer, but I know that in the package or class description for all of my code, the descriptions absolutely have to involve Satan. Screw “Hello World” as a test program, I go straight for printing out “HAIL SATAN!”
It didn’t work that well for Genesis, but that was a mean-spirited story anyway. 
Read Towing Jehovah, or the sequel, Blameless In Abaddon, might be better for some Satan attributes. In the sequel, he remains 57 years old, which wasn’t his choice and doesn’t really like it. In the first book, there isn’t any Satan, so that’s a long prologue before his character shows up.
Best of luck, Scribe!
Ha!! Yep, my book is not family-friendly, and I might as well admit it. It just can’t work that way. Repeated attempts to tone it down had a lot to do with the 348975398213498327.pi rewriting attempts of the first forty pages. The beginning has Satan and NC-17material (okay, maybe R at that point)-- and I’m PROUD! Proud, I tell you.
Is Satan a hot chick? Who does cheesecake shots?
Cuz otherwise…meh.
As someone that grew up listening to lots of iron maiden and black sabbath, and watching the exorcist & evil dead over and over…I can attest that for a certain number of people the mere presence of a satanic figure in the creative process gives us a warm, happy feeling. Its like seeing an old friend you hung around enough to see some good things about them, but not so much that you started to see all the annoying stuff too.
Faustian legends of people selling their souls have fascinated us for ages, stories about people that sell their soul to their neighbor Mike…not really all that interesting…unless Mike then resells it to Satan. See, you just bring in Satan and it clicks.
Just dont tell everyone, then they’ll all do it and it’ll cease to work. A ferrari isnt a big deal if everyone has one. Satan is the ferrari of creativity.
I loved that one! (the Satan-as-gf cartoon) Well, Satan and I go way back. 
But he was in a lot of fics with ambiguous endings, so he really wanted to reach closure.