A Sentence Starts Out Like...

a wide-thrown net, not knowing where it is going or what it is going to catch, but confident in its purpose.  When writing, one has to take the mass (or mess) of ideas and wrangle them, and from there find an eloquent way of expressing these thoughts.  If it is not written with confidence, the reader will not take the writings as they are meant to; one must project his or her ideas as his or her truth, and at the same time persuade the reader that this personal truth is more far-reaching and universal.  If done skillfully, one can capture not just the ideas he or she had, but also the reader as well; if done poorly, it is easy enough to simply become entangled instead.