Do your openings fare well?

Here’s one that doesn’t really bother me when I see it in print, since it is not technically a grammatical error. However, when I see it happen in a manuscript I’m editing, I’m more likely than not going to Comment on it to the author, and suggest alternatives to make the prose a bit better. I refer to the tendency of far too many writers to end a sentence, and then essentially tack another piece onto it, beginning the new sentence with “and,” “but” or “so” (and yes, before I get any farther, my apologies to both Jackson Browne and Michael Johnson for that execrable wordplay in the title …).