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Developing an idea : composer

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There are some very good musical ideas floating around on this reddit. The big difference I see between "great" composers and most of us is the idea of "developing" a music idea, theme, leitmotif, whatever. Maybe some of the more experienced composers here could share their ideas about development. For instance, there have been a couple of pretty nice waltzes published recently, but they're over and done in a minute. For my money, the difference between a minute waltz and a satisfying piece of music is the development part. Gentlefolk, please share! How do you take a great idea and transform it into a great piece of music? I took some composition lessons from the jazz composer Ben Wendel and we spoke a lot about how he develops ideas. Basically he’ll come up with something. Maybe a chord progression or a melody or whatever and he breaks it down into its “characteristics” like How do the pitches relate to each other? If it’s a voicing what does it look like horizontally - could it be a

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