Fonts

What's up with the debate over fonts? If you submit your work to publishers, editors, or contests, the buzz is that they all like and/or expect your work to be in one of two fonts: either Courier or Times New Roman. If you write in Word like I do and keep a running total of word or page count, you will see there is a big difference between the two. Not in word count, obviously, but Courier uses up a lot more pages than Times New Roman. So a MS (manuscript) or WIP (work in progress) could have, say, 85 pages in Courier but only 69 in Times New Roman (that's a guess). When writing for yourself it doesn't matter, but the two contests I entered called for a synopsis and the first 15 pages. Well, there is a big difference over how much writing 15 pages includes depending on the font I use. I prefer Times New Roman, because I think Courier is an ugly font. Of course, when you are writing for yourself, you can highlight the whole passage and change the font into anything you wish...it is just as easy to change back when you need to. And when you submit something, it's amazing how you can manipulate it in Word so that it pretty much fits into the parameters you need. The exception is when you are working with word counts, not page counts...word counts are pretty black and white. But that's another entry.