If you try to make music that sounds like everyone else's, then you're going to wind up with music that sounds like everyone else's. 'Right' and 'wrong' are really "what we normally do" and "what we normally do NOT do". The more you delve into the unknown and nontraditional, the more you'll find your own unique voice and sound that will give you an identity different from the usual flock.
You can always find a parallel version of whatever you do to recreate it in another sense. Especially if you use numbers (I IV V) for labeling, you can move it to any key in any register and recreate it later. You can make up your own vocabulary in musical concepts - I to #IV (like C E G to F# A# C#[[see Petrushka Chord]]), which you can then move to another scale. This is only one example. You can do it with rhythmic figures, you can do it with chord progressions, you can do it with melodies, dynamics, timbre, combinations of these factors - anything. Then if you reuse it in your other compositions, you'll have your unique reoccurring sound that listeners will be able to identify as yours.
The logic behind your choices should still be there; but it doesn't have to make sense to the world; just to you. If you can find the path through your music where others would need a compass and road map, that's okay.
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