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thank you all for your reply :) I finally have a few guidelines and am a bit less confused. I will definitely check those three books you mentioned and tried to build on that (and yes, I will treat your words as a gospel :P ... I need to begin somewhere). I will also check the finale notepad. I already have some experience with Muse Score... Pretty awesome program, I have to say... Though I've never tried to actually compose something with it. So I finally have a plan. I will begin studying harmony and than move to other topics like counterpoint. I will also start composing today (though I will probably need to turn off my sense of estethic when listening to my "masterpieces" or else I will damage my ears :P ). I will invest more time into listening to other music genres and I will learn, learn and learn untill I die (or lose my motivation... Which hopefully won't happen). So thanks once again for sharing your tips. I'll definitely make use of them. I's really encouraging to hear that I already have some basic knowledge and that I should just put my head down and start creating something.

Great! I love your "miniatures" or soliloquies... It's remarkable in this one the change in time signatures. It brings a feeling of flow but with slight variation.

Sounds like you've got a good skill set, so start composing. Also start reading about composition, and the more specific questions will begin to arrive. Those questions will lead to more questions and as you go, you'll start to understand more of what you're reading, and also realize that composition is one of those lovely open-ended studies that is never done. You'll get more knowledgable as you go, but there will always be more to learn. So go ahead and plunge in. If you can find a class, great! If not, don't let that stop you from doing what you can do right now. Anything you learn now helps prepare you to learn more in the future. But if you want to learn composing, step one is to start composing, and then let what you are writing direct your next steps.

I'm not a big fan of online learning, especially if you're just beginning to learn something new. I only use online stuff as a supplemental tool. I would advise you to focus on theory and harmony first. I would suggest reading the Kostka Tonal Harmony book, it's usually the one used by most colleges in music theory courses. When you have a good grasp of theory, then you can focus on specific things like counterpoint, orchestration, etc. I also agree with Sam, that you should just experiment writing whatever you feel like using the free notation softwares. I would also urge you to listen to all different kinds of music, and keep an open mind about new and unfamiliar genres and styles. If you can read music well, I would also tell you to read and study scores....lots of them.

I started out from two books. 1. Walter P. Piston Harmony and 2. Study of Counterpoint by Johann Joseph Fux, which is part of something else I don't remember. anyway. if you don't already have a notation software, there are some for free. legally. the two one that come to mind are finale notepad and Musescore. However many composers don't do work in the software they only write it down. If you feel ready or even not, you can always just fool around with a few chords and figure out what sounds good. some links to the things i mentioned: Harmony, walter P.Piston http://www.mediafire.com/download/d17zo6d2l6c5328/Walter+Piston+-+Harmony.pdf The Study of counter point:http://www.opus28.co.uk/Fux_Gradus.pdf Musescore: https://musescore.org/ Finale Notepad:https://www.finalemusic.com/products/finale-notepad/ All that being said. I don't think there is one way but many ways to the same place. Don't take my word as gospel, if you don't want to read books, don't. you could always find someone to ask questions.