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This is the main reason I've moved past concept-music and theoretical systems. The ideas themselves were beautiful from a logical perspective but composing with them was kind of like hitting the '=' button a calculator and the musical result would usually leave a lot to be desired. This approach wouldn't leave much room to fall short of the original idea, but it definitely fell short of being musically stimulating (for me). For some people, composing with systems and concepts produces music they like by a comfortable means. I now prefer a more open-ended approach completely guided by intuition. I definitely fall short of small-scale things from time to time with things like pacing, direction, etc. but I'm trying to accept more of these things for the sake of keeping up creative momentum.

It may sound unusual, but I actually like it when I can come up with something I wasn't planning. One of the most enjoyable things for me in composition is seeing how my initial ideas are able to grow, develop and change.

Get frustrated and scrap the thing and mumble "I'm a terrible composer" over and over again every night as I fall asleep.

"Chance" is a major aspect of my music, during the process and as part of the final product. Balancing looseness, freedom, and improvisation along with structure, progression, and control.

There are instances where when I'm at the piano a finger might "miss" and strike the wrong key in a melody but it turns out to sound fine and then the melody goes in a different direction. That's about all I can think of when it comes to chance. If I'm not at the piano, then every note is fine tuned.

I think chance affects the composition indirectly by affecting the composer first.