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✍️ Creative tools & story-driven growth from Frizzy J — writer, dad, and builder of real-life quests.


Why I Track My Wisdom Stat in Real Life
Roll for Change offers add-on Stat Discovery Guides to help you figure out your personal stat levels — and if becoming wiser is one of...
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Jul 291 min read


Why I Track My Charisma Stat in Real Life
In life — as in tabletop role-playing games — our strengths are organized into core stats. How hard you can hit a ball? That’s...
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Jun 242 min read


What I Learned from Building My Own Boss Fight Tracker
Ever feel like every time you open a door, the video game battle music starts? Same. Rather than resist that feeling, I leaned into it....
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Jun 172 min read


Gamified Journaling for People Who Hate Journaling
When I was younger and active in the church (Methodist — so, pretty casual), we were often encouraged to grab a pen and write when life...
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Jun 102 min read


My Creative Workflow as a Fiction Writer and Digital Creator
How do I stay engaged in the daily hustle and chaos of modern American life? How do I eat well, raise a child, work a job, run a...
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Jun 32 min read


Gamify your life
⚔️ Free Download for TTRPG Nerds + Creatives I made a 1-page real-life character sheet that lets you track your Strength, Wisdom,...
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May 171 min read


Return to the Vault!
Hey there, coffee guzzlers and horror fans! To begin, I'd like to apologize for my absence and silence. On the inverse, I have been hard...
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Sep 8, 20231 min read
Who are You? by Frizzy J
Who are you? I see you most nights Smoking cigarettes, Crosslegged on hard blue chairs Silent Your gaze never lingers long I follow suit...
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May 30, 20231 min read
Where My Muse Calls Home by Frizzy J
Realities aside This place within my mind Is perfection in beauty Mountains rise to soar like dragons Standing still, the illusion built...
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May 25, 20231 min read
When Everything is New Again by Frizzy J
Here’s to new beginnings And all the old lost winnings We were always born to fall And fade to dust, before it all Sins and lies and...
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May 23, 20231 min read
What I Can do by Frizzy J
I am doing what I can To make it through a day Twelve hour shifts through the night With no rest in sight I sleep in a bed polluted With...
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May 20, 20231 min read
What chance were you given? by Frizzy J
Sins of the father Blood on the ground Sins of the mother Blood on her gown We came together without knowing each other I’m sorry, my son...
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May 19, 20231 min read
Welcome Home by Frizzy J
Sins of the father Despair to all Patriarchy dies on blades of grass With wrist outturned and lined with trickling blood Where once I...
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May 18, 20231 min read
Wartorn Artist’s Wings by Frizzy J
In this shattered city lives a girl Caged by brick and mortar, she is freed by her school Where images she breathes to life And studies...
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May 17, 20231 min read
To My Son by Frizzy J
When you come, sweet boy I can teach you how to read And you can teach me how to write again I whisper this to your mama’s tummy Like a...
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May 16, 20231 min read


Moving Forward
Hey, coffee folks. Frizzy J here. Sorry I've been absent, life happened in the wake of the Harrowvault Volume 1 release. My first book,...
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May 15, 20231 min read
The Garden by Frizzy J
Within my head there grows a garden I tend it when I sleep Planting seeds ‘neath the moon And breathing in my plants My garden here...
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May 15, 20231 min read
Movie Review: IT: Chapter 2
Welcome back. Today we have a review of It: Chapter 2. If you'll recall, Chapter 1 detailed the kids' story, set in 1989. I believe...
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Apr 28, 20231 min read
Shame By Frizzy J
Dreams elude me Hopes exclude me Lies become me You pollute me Love was all I had to give you And now I pray someone will shiv you I am...
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Apr 27, 20231 min read
Resting in Rage By Frizzy J
The shaking of your leg reminds me As I lay beside you, in the dark alone The world still turns and burns and runs outside me Empty void...
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Apr 25, 20231 min read
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