ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects advice commonly given to philosophy students to help them avoid writing confused or confusing papers, and to ensure that they develop habits that lead to good philosophy. I hope these sections will be used not just as a strategy to write philosophy but also as a checklist to ease the natural anxiety of sitting down to write. Sometimes, a piece of philosophy so aggravates me that I have no writing anxiety at all. I sit down at the computer saying, "I am gonna squash this view like a grape." But other times, when I'm forced to write, for a class or a presentation or whatever, I get writer's block.
