If you saw them and opened them up, you'd say, 'Oh, this is just Diary of a Wimpy Kid write a little bit and then draw a little bit and then keep going. And once I thought I had enough, that's when I started writing the journals. because I spent a lot of time just trying to gather material. And that's why it took so long for me to get my first draft out.
And so, I tried to record everything, write everything down, that I could remember. And you know, lots of funny things happen along the way in your life. I grew up in the United States in a middle-class family situation. What really inspired it was the normal events that happened in my life. So, when I was in my 20s, I started keeping a journal. Jeff Kinney: Yeah, it was my own journal. Naina Rao: So, what inspired the idea, specifically for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid? And I think I'm about 14 years into this. And it stuck around it, you know, it struck a nerve early on. I worked on it for a long time, eight years, when it was published, I thought that it would suffer the fate of most books, which is: appear on bookshelves for a little while and then vanish. Jeff Kinney: I am a regular guy who got really lucky and got published, I had this idea for Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which is basically a journal, a kid's journal interspersed with cartoon drawings. Wyoming Public Radio's Naina Rao sat down with the author to talk about his new book, what inspired him to create this series, and the magnitude of success he's experienced with his work.
Kinney held a drive-thru book tour throughout the Mountain West region including stops in Casper and Rock Springs this month.
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When it was published into a print series in 2006, it became an instant bestseller across the world. Originally published online in 2004, Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a series of fiction books that share the story of Greg Heffney, a teenage character, and his journal entries as he navigates middle school.
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