Confessions of a Script Reader

Why some scripts don’t make it past the first round

Denise Hauf Miotke
The Writing Cooperative
7 min readOct 20, 2020

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Woman reading a book. Confessions of a Script Reader.
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I am one of those script readers that decides whether or not a contest’s script makes it to the next round of a screenwriting contest. After reading scripts for the past three years, I have a few confessions to make.

Confession #1: I want to love your screenplay

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