About pulp
pulp is a salon for writers (and readers) working at the intersection of design, business, social sciences, and technology. pulp is a long-running, peer-directed workshop. At the top level of pulp, you find things in the midst of their evolution from notion to finished work. And that’s how we want it.

About WIPs
Pulp’s ‘work in progress’ section represents the current work of the author members of the pulp community. Some folks are working on one piece, some on several. Different folks are working on different scales of work (talks, say, versus books), and some have tight deadlines while others are moving at whatever pace works.

For each piece, the author has also written a short introduction (really short) that describes why or how the work got started, where the piece should be headed, and sometimes, what specific things they would like help with. A WIP usually has a group of specific critical readers who are commenting on the thinking and the writing.

About strands
Strands are the kernels of ideas, or nagging questions, that pulp authors have put out into the community so that other authors and critical readers can comment, contribute or argue. The intention here is to help, through discussion, those questions and kernels move from their starting places to the more developed state that things have when they go up as a ‘work in progress’. The strands have life spans, and are closed and archived when the originator(s) moves the work to a wip (or retires it).

About the pulp archives
The pulp archives are where pulp authors present and past can keep versions, unpublished papers, and drafts that are ‘parked’ until time permits a significant revisit. Authors choose when to move a piece from “Work In Progress” to the archives, and in some instances, what is archived may not be the same version as what is published in other venues. That’s just fine. Sometimes, authors will put a draft in the pulp archives before they have the time or headspace to work on it actively. Sometimes, a piece just doesn’t end up working as whole, but none of us want to lose the good bits. Strands are archived at the initiator’s & editors’ discretion.  Authors can remove works from the archives at any time.  the pulp archives use tags and full text search, and are available to all pulp readers.

~ The default display of the archives is reverse chronology.

~ An author’s profile page will list all of their work.