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I like how Richard Strauss, ever the egomaniac, said on his deathbed, "It's a funny thing, Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Death and Transfiguration."

There's a lot that can be said about method concerning how you're actually writing things so that they feel like a coherent whole, so to speak. However, I tend to think that the best way to get it how you want it is to experiment with different ways of actually writing your music. Maybe starting at bar 1 is not the best option every time, and if you have troubles with continuity perhaps you should try out some exercises to help get your groove going. One of my favourite exercises to practice structural length and transition is to grab 4 measures from one composer and 4 measures from another and make a bridge that lasts between 10 to 15 measures, depending on how far the examples are from eachother. So for example, grab the first 4 measures from some random Beethoven sonata and some 4 measures from the middle of something from, say, Faure. Then try to bridge both things in 15 measures, see what happens. And you keep doing this, trying out different composers/pieces until you start to "feel" how long your ideas need to be. An eye for structure is not something you're born with, you gotta work for it like everything else about composing, and I have a feeling that's where your problem lies.

For me, the fact that no one else has written this music before I do is good enough a reason.

Do you really think there's anything about you that I can be jealous about? Or are you looking to brew up trouble? Frankly this rethorical question would be laughable at the very least, if it wasn't so tiresome to keep reading your self-pitying antics. Seriously? Or have you done enough to discourage any kind of criticism or the slightest suggestion for improvement? Also: Do you ever - EVER - review a piece by someone else? Or does anyone look up to you for advice on forms, development, counterpoint, orchestration or whatever? If your answer to any of these questions is NO, I wonder how can you possibly know for sure that you're garnering respect rather than indifference. Get the idea, for God's sake: this site is about cooperation and feedback. This is NOT a showcase site for "composer wannabes", so full of themselves as to blatantly ignore everything and everyone around them (and who would be better served by starting their own website). This IS a site for people who want to share knowledge and use it to improve, so the only attitude that can keep the site alive is that of cooperation and humility.