Ah, winter break! I've waited for this day since school started, which goes to show just what a big lazy butt I am. In any case, I have suddenly been granted floods and floods of spare time, which I am mostly spending... on the computer. But not on doing anything particularly creative, unfortunately. I'm quite dry of inspiration and I've decided not to try forcing it.

(At this point, Pom got up to investigate a nice smell. She came back with the pizza that she mentions eating in the status bar up top.)

I've managed to get other things done, however. One doll came from this period of non-forced dolling. It was the product of some prodding by ~amightyfrog and involves a very dirty inside joke involving waffles--namely, the waffle-making skills of Sherlock Holmes. Trust me, we found a way to make such an innocent speculation dirty. Try it yourself, you may be amazed at what you come up with.

Other than that, I've read three books! Year of the Griffin (Pom pauses for a moment and realises that her first attempt at 'griffin' resulted in 'friggin') by Diana Wynne Jones was the first one. It was quite good, though I feel I didn't get as much out of the story as I could have. I was so amazed that I was reading at last that I couldn't forget that it was just a book. =<

Then, I read Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle. I think it was yesterday or the day before that I remembered when the Sherlock Holmes stories were written. That is to say, I realised that the copyright had probably expired for at least a few of them, so I went on over to the Project Gutenberg site and searched. And I found it! The inner fangirl in me squealed, and so, I read Sign of Four. I moved on to A Study in Scarlet after that. That one was... interesting. The beginning made me giggle uncontrollably.

Anyway, I read a few of the short stories (The Dying Detective, The Devil's Foot) before moving on to The Valley of Fear, which I am reading at the moment. Well, I was. Then I got stricken by this idea--to write a journal! Oh dear! If only I could write stories with the same lack of self-consciousness and concern for quality, but no. "It's only a rough draft," doesn't work for me when it's fiction.

I got a bit inspired to write just now, but I know the feeling. It's misleading. I'm gathering ideas for a new novel about fairies right now. xD Fairies, of all things, Pom! But they're not the tiny, winged creatures who do good for people, and they're not the evil Faeries that have become popular recently. They're Pommish Fairies, which basically guarantees that they are bizarre.

If anybody knows a good resource on fairy lore, I'd like to know it. Just to make sure my fairies don't have the same customs (it makes perfect sense in my head! xD).

Well, that's all for now. Books, books, books! I love those things. *goes back to reading*