What else takes 10 days?

What Webnesh says about creativity has sparked my thoughts somewhat. I had my first roll of film in 4M Photography today, and even though I was only tossing off 12 frames of a small space--I picked the men's bathroom--so that Liz (art/photography teacher) would know where we stood, it felt so good to be looking through that lens, trying to find a good shot. Photography's great for me, because I feel I have an artistic eye, but I don't have artistic hands.
By the end, I was struggling a bit, trying to find 12 shots of this room, but I feel that, artistically at least, they should turn out fine. The real problem for me--since I haven't handled a camera in at least fourteen months--will be on the technical/processing side, and we'll see where I'm at on Monday.
So, back to maintaining creativity: it felt so good to be free. Here's a roll of film, find a small space or a person, shoot 12 shots, bring it back to process--although my group didn't get to the processing today. I've done plenty of creative writing over the past semester, but just about all of it didn't feel right to me. I got ridiculous marks--Agatha (English teacher) told me today that I got 100 per cent in 4U English, the first time she'd ever awarded a perfect overall mark; I was honestly stunned, etc. and that's not just false modesty, and I probably got mid-high nineties Writer's Craft and Philosophy marks--but I wasn't really proud of many of my finished products: they were too long, too boring (my play especially, although I liked the end), not significant enough, didn't have the style that I wanted, etc., etc.
With photography it can be so easy. You find something you like in the world, and you shoot it. Maybe it's art, maybe it's junk, maybe it's not anything, not even worth looking at. But the point is, technical aspects aside, it's what you saw. Whatever you want to put in your shot can be there, and there's no struggle to draw something realistically, or paint something beautiful, or anything like that, and I've just now lost where this sentence is going, and it just makes me sound lazy. 'It's what you saw.' Let's start back there. There's nothing between your eye and the audience for your print but the technical processes, so if I can work that out, it should be aces.
I was going to write a looooong post recounting various things of the past several days, but I kind of ran long, and the truth is, Blog, I don't really like you, but I'll write some more soon. I have too much weird news.