Developing Ideas, Where Am I Going?

Hey guys, im new to this forum. And I started composing seriously since last july. I am fascinated by music composition and am now writing instrumental music for guitar. I already have quite a few ideas and im trying to develop them. I can always start the process quite well, untill I come at that point where something new has to happen. But the most important thing is that in the development I often dont know where to go.. and also not how to finish. When I study the music that I like there is quite a clear line of the music, and what course it is taking. But when I try to do this with my own ideas it sounds weird or boring to me. Can someone give me some advise on how to deal with this?

Thanks, I willl probably be bothering you guys with more questions like this xD

If it were me, I'd be starting out with some idea of a retransition and go from there.  

hey thnx for your reply. that word was new to me so i looked it up, "In sonata-allegro form, the retransition is the last part of the development which leads to the tonic of the main key and usually emphasizes it."

This is what im looking for but i have no idea of how to get there satisfactorly. I mean, for example if you just ended on a far distance note from the tonic. I should somwhow make my idea move closer to that tonic to be able to close right?

Also how is this emhasizing done ? Just a repeating sequence to make it clear?

thnx

The expectation of a return to the main key and the reexposition of the themes is usually achieved through some sort of prolongation of the dominant, either through many V7's, a dominant pedal, etc.

The expectation of a return to the main key and the reexposition of the themes is usually achieved through some sort of prolongation of the dominant, either through many V7's, a dominant pedal, etc.

What do you mean with prolongation of the dominant. Are you talking about the dominant note, or the chord itself? Im not very familiar with this.

Ok, let's be more exact:

the dominant chord, all its extensions (7th, 9th, 13th; #11 < more hardcore), a dominant pedal...

You could also emphasize pre-dominant chords, like IV, V6/4, aumented 6ths, bII... Before the V itself.

More basically, the first mistake you make is trying to do something different. Don't worry, it's a classic rookie mistake.