break from reading, you find yourself wanting to hurry and get back to it to find out what’s going to happen. That sounds incredibly simplistic, but it’s true. We all know people we love to sit with because they tell great stories, a good screenwriter is one of those folks.
In running this Competition, I’ve read hundreds of screenplays, and the worst ones are simply… boring. After a few pages, I just don’t care about the characters or where the story is going. The best screenplays pull you in and make you want to turn the next page. When you take a
Congrats to Justin Nosler for winning the Spring 2025 Hot Springs Screenplay Competition! His screenplay, A One Time Thing, was one of the best I’ve read in a long time!
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