Given two sentences, construct a compound sentence using the conjunction "and".
Sentence 1: She wrote a novel.
Sentence 2: She started painting.
She wrote a novel and she started painting.
Complete the following task based on the instruction and optional input provided.### Instruction:
Given two sentences, construct a compound sentence using the conjunction "and".

### Input:
Sentence 1: She wrote a novel.
Sentence 2: She started painting.

### Output:
She wrote a novel and she started painting.