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I've been working on this piece on-and-off for about two months now. This piece is a reworking of an older chamber work (you may remember the Grande Valse I wrote nearly a year ago) into a much larger orchestral setting, since I planned on submitting this piece for a competition I felt like attempting around the end of December of last year. Doing so was apparently much, much harder than I expected with this particular composition: there were a lot of inconsistencies in the written music, orchestrally unsound harmonies, and otherwise confounding structural decisions that made it an extraordinary pain to orchestrate this whole thing in its entirety. To this day, I haven't been able to complete it. This piece also happens to be my first serious attempt at an orchestration from a chamber piece, which is why I find it a more challenging task than others more well-versed in orchestration probably would (a 21st century Ravel, I am not). I've had to rewrite entire sections because of the issues mentioned above, and I've found it alarmingly difficult to write with a reasonably consistent output for some time: there were many weeks where I would suffer from composer's block, and I've only got about a month and a half to go before the submission date is due. I would therefore like to ask the lovely people in this forum for some help regarding what I can do about my piece as it stands and what I can do to combat the composer's block I'm currently suffering from. All feedback is welcome! I hope to hear from you all ☺️