Overrated.
I can now avoid doing this when writing a professional letter, or when doing something un-creative in school.
But personally, in my own writing, it makes me who I am.
Everyone avoids those little tiny words; I glorify them!
And my English teacher in college supported my decision to begin sentences with CCs when appropriate.
So you see, they’re not all bad.
“There is a persistent belief that it is improper to begin a sentence with And, but this prohibition has been cheerfully ignored by standard authors from Anglo-Saxon times onwards. An initial And is a useful aid to writers as the narrative continues.” from The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage
