For years I have heard many actors say that they never watch their own films. I always thought they were being a little pretentious but then I realized I do the same thing.

I have written thousands of poems and except on rare occasions I couldn't tell you what was in the poem twenty minutes after I finish it. I am fully invested while writing but when it's done, well, it's done.

Writing books is a little different. I find I read and re-read pages, paragraphs, even sentences, editing my thoughts as I go then committing to a full edit at the end of a chapter and at the end of the book. I've lived the story so many times by the time the book is done that it seems superfluous to ask the "do you read your own writing" question.

How about you? Does your process mimic that of many actors?