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I consider myself VERY slow. I can easily produce ideas but assembling them into a coherent, attractive picture takes a long time.
I do find writing for a text is easier as the text may guide you with the struture of the piece and even the rhythmic/melodic choices. So, after studying a short liturgical piece from my organ teacher, I wrote a nice Kyrie lasting about 1.5 minutes over a two week period (It will be part of a Mass).
The only "complete" piece I have posted on YC was a 3-4 min organ work which took about 7 months to write (between work and school asssignments), though technically even longer as I used some material I had written over a year ago for the piece. More recently I posted some variations for solo clarinet which are "temporarily" finished ( a work in progress if you will). The main part of it took about 2 weeks to write, revisions another 4 weeks. I took a break from it but am now writing a conclusion and verifying i one variation is doable.
ONe of my "issues" though is a tendency to overwrite or overedit. And I have taken composition seriously for about 4-5 years and only recently started taking classes at a music school (prior I studied privately).
What I see from more experienced composers is as you write more you will be able to write "decent" to "pretty good" pieces very quickly. These pieces would have been considered great ones by them earlier in their careers, but their standards (hopefully) improve, and /or tastes, philosophy change. So in the end, everyone feels like a beginner when starting anything new -- no matter how many times thay may have done something similar.
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