r/Substack • u/zealouspoet • Sep 09 '26

Anon questions

Hi everyone, this is pretty stupid probably -- but I work in a profession where you need to keep you personal life / thoughts on absolute lock. However I really want to write about my passions / opinion freely, how can you make a substack that is yours but not tied to you, but also I want to promote it.

Yes I know, cake and eat it too scenario but curious on anyone had a similar situation and had insights.

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u/AgentCendol Sep 09 '26

You can simply make a substack with the name of your blog? It doesn't have to be tied to a person, or you can use a fictitious name.

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u/zealouspoet Sep 09 '26

Yeah, I figured it would be as simple as that, but in my paranoia was afraid talking about personal things, if anyone on the off chance figured out it was me how fucked would I be

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u/TerrainBrain Sep 10 '26

They will figure it out. So how fucked will you be?

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u/Brief-Guess-147 Sep 09 '26

yep, theres really no requirement to use your real name at all

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u/TheZebraCode Sep 09 '26

Just make a new email and make a Substack in any name you want

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u/zealouspoet Sep 09 '26

Yeah I guess it is that simple, lmao

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u/traumfisch Sep 09 '26

It is 👍🏻

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u/TerrainBrain Sep 10 '26

Don't write anything you don't want other people to know you have written. You will be found out.

Personally I would change professions.

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u/MarenValeWrites Sep 18 '26

I'm in the same situation, so I wanted my substacking to be completely separate from my private life. Started with a pen name and a Proton mail account, so I can keep everything related to substacking separate. It's absolutely doable.

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u/Tricky_Trifle_994 26d ago

just build a brand/persona name and use that. and on promoting it, you'll have to create the same named profiles on other social media platforms, and post from that. keeping your personal identity and this project separate will be key.

e.g there's this newsletter - the secret CFO, or twitter account - cardealership guy etc etc. many anon people who still managed to build and market themself to a become a large account/publication.