Why you need to track your dopamine as a writer

A writer wasting her dopamine

Every morning I sit at my desk, fingers hovering over the keyboard.

Ready.

Waiting.

But something’s off.

That spark, that drive to write — it’s just not there.

The brain is full of a strange, incomprehensible buzz.

It is questioning my every move.

It wants to be somewhere else.

Or I just want to go back to sleep.

Sound familiar?

Dopamine might be the culprit.

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Or the lack of it.

A bored writer

Writers face a unique challenge that few talk about: managing their brain’s dopamine economy.

Yeah, you read that right.

Economy.

Because just like money, your brain’s dopamine has limits.

And just like money, most of us are spending it in all the wrong places.