To do or not to do (Nanowrimo)

In this time of year, I start to ask myself this question: To do or not to do Nanowrimo (http://nanowrimo.org/)?
Nanowrimo is a month, the month of November, where people write like mad people.  The goal is to write 50 000 words in one month.  Even if it is all crap.  It is a time to shut up the inner critique and write like the wind.  In the past, it had helped me write many first drafts.  I could put down the essential of many stories.  Those stories were in my mind for many years.  It was therapeutic to put them on paper.  I needed the little push.  Since then, I am working in the correction of those stories.  Nanowritmo also happen in the summer and there is also the script version: Script Frenzy.  The website doesn't seems to be up, maybe it had been integrated into the main site.

This year, I don't have any story.  I pretty much written the stories I wanted to write.  No idea had presented itself to me.  I am a bit in a void.  There was two years where I wrote with a really bare outline, without a fixed story to tell.  On one of those year, I even took tarot cards to create the outline of a story.  Last time I had done it, I had the main idea: it was on a private Halloween party.  It was fun to do, a learning experience.  I have learned a lot.  This year, I just not in the mood to repeat that.  Or to repeat what I had already done.

I ask the title question also in the mind of what I want to do while doing Nanowrimo.  Of course, experimenting is giving me insight.  I learn on my limits, on expanding what I like or didn't like when writing.  Or, for example, last time I did Nanowrimo, it took me the whole 50 000 words to know a bit more on the storyline.  This year, I don't have the goal to write a story.  50 000 words is a goal by itself.   I can put 50 000 random words.  I won't learn anything on the side.  I want to grow as a writer.  Since I started to write,  I learned a lot on how my mind work, on my comfort zone and what will work when writing.  I know I can do 50 000 words if I want to, if I have a good idea, as I had in the past.  Will trying a new genre will help?  What do I want to write about?  I have to get enough ideas and themes; enough material for 50 000 words.

I am still in the thinking process.  I will take the next few days to decide of what I want to do.  Will I do it or not, that is the question...