Why Writerish.org?

So, the why of writerish.org. It's not my first website, or my me-as-writer website - that lives at clairehennessy.com, and it's not my first blog - I babble on over at livejournal quite a bit. Why on earth, then, do I need another site for? (Quite aside from the joy of having a 'dot org', of course.)

Some of the writerly-tangential things I do tie into my books, and the site and LJ, quite nicely: readings or school visits, where the focus is usually on the specific writer and what they have written and why they've written it and whether or not they've secretly disguised ex-lovers or former friends in the text. That kind of thing. But then there are other things, like creative writing classes or workshops, where what you bring to the table has less to do with your own work so much as what you've learned from it, and what you've learned about "the writing process" (let's keep the quote marks there, shall we?) in the years you've been writing and publishing.

So what I'm trying to do here, I guess, is to have a site I can point people towards to let them know about classes/workshops that I'm doing, or collaborating with, or whatever else seems relevant, without having to subject them to days and days wading through various versions of 'Dear livejournal, today I drank lots of tea and pondered the meaning of life.' We'll see how it goes.