I'm a fairly slow composer. It takes me longer than I'd like to get the ideas I have down on the page. At the same time, I usually have the whole piece conceived and planned out in the pre-planning stage, when the pencil is just starting to hit the page.

I get bogged down by the idea that so little of the piece is on paper, that I feel like I'm always behind. Today, my lesson was a nice reminder that that's not true!

In my lesson, my prof complimented me on how organized I was and lamented about how she wished all her students put that much thought into their pieces.

It's not like I'm going to take this as license to stop writing things down altogether... but it was nice to have my compositional method reaffirmed.