The screenplays Lin penned were soon piled in a stack as high as he was tall. He entered the Government Information Office's contest for outstanding screenplays three years in a row without success. Then his wife, Ko Shu-ching, won with her first submission, High Mountain Balloon.
林正盛寫過堆起來和自己一般高的劇本，他曾連續三年參加新聞局優良劇本獎徵選都「槓龜」，倒是柯淑卿的《高山上的熱氣球》，一出手就得到優良劇本獎。