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First of all, great that you want to learn to compose! I can share my composing advice. When I started to compose, which is circa 2,5 years ago, I did not know anything about music theory. I did play saxophone and I learnt to play keyboard. So, I was familiar with reading notes and chords, but harmony, form, counterpoint etc. were terms I never had heard of. To be clear: my first compositions were garbage, but I am so glad that I wrote them. Every 'mistake' you make, will help you with composing the next piece. Experience and doing it is the key. I started to imitate and copy Mozart's first minuets so that I became familiar with standard forms and harmony. Furthermore, I listened to all kinds of music. Since you say that you already have some knowledge of theory, I think you should just start composing. When you do not like the result, do not delete it, but look why you do not like it and what you could change so that you will like it. Good luck!

Yes, John Williams. More specifically, very Holst Planetsy. Very well orchestrated. Very full sound. Very balanced between the parts notated for. I would reiterate what Monarcheon was saying. It seems like a few short ideas crammed together. It seems like this could be some material used for a much larger piece and some of these ideas should be stretched out and really tied together with a very strong theme. You are lacking a motif or melody that runs constant through the whole thing and ties it together. It sounds to me like we enter into listening to this thing mid story. It is certainly a better job then I can do with notating and orchestrating, but this is what I hear. I hear it a lot with composers. They do 2-4 minutes of something and they compose what you might call your A and B sections but they are really short and lack enough material to separate them or to even call them sections. I apologize for critiquing this way because I listen and critique as a listener as opposed to someone who can actually do what you have done. Great job nonetheless!