Writing challenge ! and high school was not so great

I was going to practice creative writing, even though i'm more into visual creativity.
But i wanted to know my capabilities if i did put effort into writing like a short story.
I also wanted to explore this because i never really got to even in school.  My english teachers were good people, but they never really taught me anything, and the curriculum was (and might still be) absolute shit.  I did explore interesting subjects for assignments, but i feel like i never got to practice the detailed techniques that could have given me better marks for those assignments. 
I know if i practiced i could do okay.  Most of my assignments in uni were done within a day, with hardly and editing or revising, and I still got around 70%+.  My new media subject in high school also taught me how to write something and i got my first and last ever A for a writing assignment.  But my English classes were basically given a sheet that said 'structure' on it, and that was it. Intro, Body of a few paragraphs, Conclusion with recommendations.  That was it.  My school was pretty shit.
My school was also shit because they got rid of the only subject i was looking forward to on the year i was about to enter. Even though the subject was pointless to the majority, i saw it as really important for my future, and i still feel the same way. fuck you forever.

Then i got distracted and instead of creative writing, i'm gonna do a little challenge list i found on pinterest! I guess i failed that already.  Or i'll just put it on hold and get back to it 11 years from now.  It's based on books, so i think i'll just pick several from the list and move on to another list.  I haven't really read too many books in the past few years, at least compared to my high school days.  But i'm still getting through some, and there's a few on my wishlist because i go into bookstores quite often for a whole bunch of reasons.  That's one thing i miss about high school though.  I could read so much, and i did that now i've forgotten so many titles but i remember all these stories.  It's frkn confusing

This is the first list: