Stop Letting Your Inner Critic Destroy Your Creativity

A lesson from Arthur Conan Doyle on why you need to value your work

Nicole Bianchi
4 min readMay 11, 2019

Have you ever started writing a story or a blog post and felt like it wasn’t turning out the way you had envisioned it in your head?

The words aren’t flowing quite the way you would like. Yet, you spent so much time working on it, that you decide to hit publish.

“It’s awful,” you think. “Certainly not my best work.”

But your audience loves it.

In fact, they love it even more than anything else you’ve written. They demand more of the same.

What are you to do? Is your writing really as bad as you think?

Something similar happened to Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes’s Greatest Enemy Wasn’t Moriarty

“I was glad to withdraw Holmes before the public were too weary of him,” Arthur Conan Doyle wrote to a journalist in 1927, several years before Doyle’s death.

It was not, of course, the public that was weary of Holmes, but Doyle himself.

He had already tried to kill off the famous consulting detective in 1893.

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Nicole Bianchi
Nicole Bianchi

Written by Nicole Bianchi

Writer, Copywriter, Storyteller. Get my newsletter for exclusive articles & resources on how to craft compelling words: www.nicolebianchi.com.

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