Dear Steem,
I would like to take a moment to introduce myself. I have been around Steem for a fair amount of time. Though this is a new account, for a specific purpose.
I have been looking for my niche, and I believe I have found it. I am here to be your Ghost Writer.
You see. I came across this old post from one of my favorite Steemians, @stellabelle. She spent some time accepting Steemians deepest darkest secrets, and publishing them anonymously. You can check out some of the stories that were shared by going to asksteem.com and search secret-writer. Here's a LINK if you want to go straight to the results page. There are some pretty cool stories in there.
Unfortunately, it has been some time since the last secret-writer post. So without any prior consent from Stellabelle, I have chosen to take up the mantle of Secret story sharer.
What Stella set up was pretty successful, so I am going to follow her lead pretty much to every point.
- What is Dear Secret?
Dear Secret is a Ghost publishing service where you can share your deepest darkest secret from the cover of Dear Secret's user account. Your identity will not be revealed at any point, your secret is safe with us!
- How do I submit a Secret?
You can submit a secret by emailing your secret to [email protected]. Submissions can be anything from a basic outline of the story, which we will flesh out into a full post complete with appropriate accompanying pictures. Or you could send us your fully formed complete ready to publish post. If you choose this latter course, the suggestion would be to use a tool such as hackmd.io and simply send the link to your story by email. - How do I benefit by sharing my secret?
All secrets will be published as 50/50 reward posts. All liquid proceeds from the post will be sent to the secret sharer. This can be in the form of SBD, Steem or BTC. Please include the appropriate wallet address for us to send payment to when submitting your secret. We will not transfer SBD within Steem as the anonymity factor would be lost. Keep in mind, any coin other than SBD will incur transaction fees in converting the SBD to alternate forms of crypto. These will reduce your potential payout. Should you not provide a crypto address before post payout, we will assume that the liquid rewards are being donated to the Dear Secret cause and it will be converted to Steem Power.
- When will my secret be published?
This will depend largely on the number of secrets received, and the state of the secret you send. The more "ready to print" what you send to us is, the more quickly we can turn it out. We would also expect that in the beginning, while the audience is small, we will be able to turn these out more quickly. It all depends on how many submissions we get. - Why should I send you my secret instead of posting myself?
You shouldn't! We would encourage you to post your own secrets on your own account, so you reap the most benefits! This service is for those with secrets the want to keep anonymous, but are too good not to be shared. - Is there any Secret you will not publish?
Yes. We will not post anything that is the result of a felony crime. Anything which could lead to us being called to testify in a court of law is not acceptable. - Does the story have to be my own?
Yes. Or we must have verifiable consent from the person the story does involve. We will not publish a piece without the consent of the primary actor of the story. - How will you know if the story is true?
We won't. This is a act of faith. You have to live with yourself if you use our service to publish a false story. Fiction stories should not be submitted to us, and should be published as such on your own blog.
Final Thoughts
By emailing your story to [email protected] you consent to have your story shared on the blockchain in an anonymous way. You relinquish the right to hold Dear Secret at fault for any potential repercussions from the publication of your story.
Dear secret will make every effort to keep your secret anonymous, but we cannot guarantee that people will not figure out whose story we are sharing. It is up to the submitter to phrase the story in such a way as to maintain their own anonymity.
We hope this service will provide some wonderful, intriguing stories with the population of Steem. Get your stories in our email box so we can start sharing!
Some secret-writer posts you should visit to get a taste of what this could be like:
I'm a Stranger to Myself
From Drug Dealer to Redemption
Confessions of a Sperm Donor
A Secret Relationship with my Cousin
OH I see what you are trying to do here, I'm very intrigued, you should try to add something else that stella hadn't done, make it a bit your own thing. But all in all amazing project and I wish you the best... maybe I'll send you some of my secrets...
While the idea and general rules remain the same, I think you will find that my writing style will differ a great deal from Stella's, and that will allow the project to take on a new shape moving forward.
It is important to note that at the end of her FAQ post, Stella mentioned that the idea was "open source" and anyone who wanted to do so was welcome to carry the idea on. I don't think great ideas should die because the person who started the project no longer has time for it.
I'd love to have some of your stories come in to be shared. It would be a lot of fun!
Really cool idea, I didn't know she did that, but I'm glad you resurrected it. I will do what I can support this, and good luck. If i am free in the coming weeks I will perhaps share.
Yeah. Stella has had a great history of contributions to Steem. It is really worthwhile to dig back into her blog history to see some of the stuff she has been involved with. I highly recommend it. Kinda fangirling here to even be trying to live up to her image!
I appreciate any involvement you can give! Upvotes and Resteems are always more than welcome! And of course stories stories stories!
Welcome to Steem @dearsecret I have upvoted and sent you a tip
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STOPWelcome to steemit !! @dearsecret
i hope you enjoy this community. :)
Thank you so much @Thailand-funfun!
Why dont you blog more often on this a/c? :)
We've just started back up again... but haven't received any e-mails yet... once we start receiving people's secrets then we'll start posting. Thank you!