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It can happen a looooot of things, better you start and tell us if you find a problem, if will be just first orchestral work don't try to go too far. In my case, I never write reductions, I write directly for all, very often my imagination goes too fast and I write the ending just after starting, so I write a work for my ending, in the middle part usually I write something, one page, next day I write another page, next day I listen and I don't like it and delete the whole thing and rewrite, that's why I'm so slow, I write like 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 4 + 1 + 1 - 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 7 etc I reject so many ideas

I am lazy, I do not care to skech a proper piano draft as a first stage. But just try to figure out what suits the best for you. Especially if you start with it, just experiment, and try another approach if you feel the current isn't working. I know of composers that start with only a piano version, and say that is the least distracting for them. I thought Shostakovich used a kind of midway: He starts for 3 pianos, one playing the woodwind part, one for the brass, one for the strings.