I did it in 2006 and won, which was the push it took to get me over my fear of long-form writing projects. It was a really great way to develop writing discipline.
I signed up for it in 2007, but didn't get farther than day two. I'd had surgery literally a month earlier, and I just didn't have the energy. I thought I'd be fine, but I wasn't. For me, that was a wake-up call: Writing - real writing - isn't a relaxing activity.
I've already got an idea for this year, though. *grins maniacally* I'll (hopefully) be in New Orleans on a mission trip for the first week, but that should give me lots of material to make up for the lost time. Hoo rah NaNoWriMo!
The interesting thing about the racism charge is that Suess' caricatures of the Japanese were almost certainly just that -- caricatures. Several of his wartime cartoons tackled subjects like anti-Semitism and segregation in the military, and the book Horton Hears A Who was written as a cry against prejudice.
I signed up for it in 2007, but didn't get farther than day two. I'd had surgery literally a month earlier, and I just didn't have the energy. I thought I'd be fine, but I wasn't. For me, that was a wake-up call: Writing - real writing - isn't a relaxing activity.
I've already got an idea for this year, though. *grins maniacally* I'll (hopefully) be in New Orleans on a mission trip for the first week, but that should give me lots of material to make up for the lost time. Hoo rah NaNoWriMo!