Lawl jokes, I actually did some research yesterday about Catherine's memoirs, from Mrs Colmer's link - thank you so much! It was extremely useful and also linked me to other sources that I can use for my research. The only bad thing about it was that the source basically was what I wanted to do for this project; an analysis about Catherine's authenticity in her memoirs. Now when I do get started on my work, I'll keep checking not to make my work similar to the source :/
I'm thinking that my question could be: How real is Catherine the Great in her memoirs? I think I'll explore what the memoirs talk about, what ideas they are trying to show about Catherine and what other people think of her authenticity and her memoirs. So...it looks like I won't be doing the creative option. If I was to do the creative option, though, I think I'll worry too much about it, but I can't afford to do that (next week is doom week part II where I'm going to drown in assignments and all-nighters). Shame.
Next step: I'm going to look at the source mentioned in the original source from Mrs Colmer (writing that confuses me) and scavenge for more information so I can put it into a report or something. I want it to be more of a presentation - visual sort of thing. It's easier to understand and create if I make some sort of visual representation of my findings.