Q: Do you have any tips for someone looking to streamline their creative process? I've gotten into composition over the past year, and I think  my concepts have a lot of potential, but I'm having trouble managing my time and turning the concepts into finished products. Also, I have trouble deciding when a product is finished, and when there's nothing left to be done on it.
A: it sounds like you need to do the 'small projects' trick. make very very small projects. you will learn everything you need to know about every stage of the process, because it will be much easier to move through them all, repeatedly. you will learn quickly this way. and if it's not working, make the projects even smaller, until it works