Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.
It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.
You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.
The composition is already there, you just need to crop it
I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.