I seem to be rather alone and swimming against the currents with my pet peeve of writers starting sentences with conjunctions. You used the term reforestation of creativity below arguing for bringing back these marks. I feel the same way about what I call conjunctivitis writing. There are many synonyms for "and" and "but" with which one can start a sentence or god damnit just combine the sentences. Have sentences of various lengths. I wrote a short piece about this last year: https://medium.com/p/1b987562ad1 I was pleased to see that in your piece you only commited this crime twice.