"There is not enough time in the day to be both ambitious and lazy...one day I must try the former."

"One's own resolve is the most powerful tool in one's possession. Encouragement, mentorship and so on can augment and improve one's resolve, but without it these other tools merely make a facsimile."

So goes the trite, "rusty" repetition.

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"The wind rustled, carrying a sense of adventure, and she turned over the coin in her hand."

By forming sentences, we connect ideas. It is worth thinking about why we connect some clauses and not others, how concepts relate to each other within the grammatical and compositional structure. Ideas should be connected such that they intimate, no that they express that the authors wants to say two things and cannot be bothered to separate sentences. "The wind rustled, carrying a sense of adventure. She turned over the coin in her hand." Even in sentences like this which are not meaningfully altered by the addition or subtraction of a conjunction, the flow and space of the writing changes. To do this well, perhaps that is what seperates amateureness from competence.

These words now half-bakedly heaved from the oven, eyes close and slumber comes. Could this dragging of feet and mind and hand be the culmination of that marathon dream?