Compositional strategy

For me personally, the most important part of composing is having a clear vision of what I want to express. After that I spend a lot of time improvising, coming up with small ideas that support the emotional content that I want to create. I also start to think a lot about the overall form of the piece, which is again connected with the emotional ideas that are being developed. After that, there is a lot of slow progress, inch by inch, until I feel like I have something that comes close to what I want. I have to admit that composing is an incredibly time consuming and slow process for me.