I'm still indecisive as to whether this should be here or general topics, but there you have it. I'm passing that buck to the moderators.
The last year or so, I've found it very difficult to work on anything without immediately considering it the vein of my symphony I've been working on. When I get frustrated with it, I'll try to go work on something else, but invariably, I find myself trying to shoehorn or cannibalize the parts of what precious little else I write into being in the symphony.
It's quite frustrating, but so far I've learned to live with it. At least it gives me a bit of a reason to finish the work, for all that I've a long way to go. I sometimes can scurry away to do some minor engraving work, but even that is most often on the symphony, and there are precious few works about which I'm concerned for engraving them, right now.
Does anyone else have similar challenges, where one work so dominates your compositional thought that you simply can't be productive on really anything else? How do you handle it, or do you?
-Matthew
