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In Diary of a Little Fart, Jeff Ginny depicts the daily life of a 12-15-year-old: he's not so perfect, but real enough; he's mischievous but kind-hearted; he's the protagonist of a global bestseller and an ordinary member of countless teenagers.
After Kinney's "Little Ass Diary" broke into the Public Eye of the United States in 2007, it received a batch of "Gray Powder" from all over the world. The protagonist of the book, Gray, is "sometimes naïve, sometimes helpless, sometimes naughty, sometimes rebellious", and the reader sees the diversity of this group in life in this American teenager who has just entered junior high school: barely honest, and occasionally loves to play a little clever; his appearance is slightly lacking, so he hopes to attract everyone's attention with "ghost ideas".
This is perhaps the first global bestseller with the theme of "teenagers". In the book, Ginny opens a window for 12-15-year-old teenagers, so that they can see the outside world, and also let the outside world look at and face this group of teenagers.
Such an alternative diary featuring "imperfect junior high school students" won the American Children's Choice Award for three consecutive years from 2009 to 2011, the American Library Association Good Book Award in 2009, the "Most Popular Book in The Nation" in 2010, and the second most popular children's book in Time magazine for many years, second only to Harry Potter.
Kinney himself was named one of the 2009 Top 100 People by Time magazine and ranked third on the 2017 Global Writers' Rich List.
Since then, Ginny has continued to work on his "Little Ass Series", which has now been translated into 25 languages and adapted by Fox Pictures into a film of the same name.
But in the first 8 years of "Little Ass Diaries", Ginny's creative rhythm was a repeated cycle of "drawing and writing books - submitting articles - retracting manuscripts - continuing to draw". From the creation of "Diary of a Little Fart" in 1998 to the final acceptance and finalization of the publishing house in 2006, Ginny said that if he was not optimistic, he was estimated to have "picked a pick and stopped doing it".
Before writing a new book, Kinney usually takes five or six months to prepare. This preparation period is long but simple, and there is actually only one thing to sum up: making jokes.
He is passionate about creating a variety of scenes and environments that facilitate the birth of jokes. In 2016, he bought a bicycle, hoping to pedal to make up better jokes, and then he made a swing between two trees outside his yard door, hoping to catch the tail of a good joke when the hanging chair took off and landed.
At the end of April 2018, Kinney was struck by the enthusiasm of child readers at an event in Guangzhou. After the event, he whispered to those around him: "Do I really have so many readers in China?" ”
The other party gave an affirmative answer. Ginny nodded, but after a moment he deliberately showed an "unsatisfied" expression: "I thought they were pretending." I'm happy to love my book from the bottom of my heart, but it also makes it impossible for me to make jokes about it. ”
It seems that he has never forgotten to add some jokes to "The Little Ass Diary".
Never underestimate children's understanding, most children can smell the trite of traditional preaching.
The absurd things of the 12-15 age group, the things that may not be too glorious to say but have really existed. One truth is that we should never underestimate the understanding of these children today. An event and a story, in the way you tell them, is actually very important. Most children can smell the trite of traditional preaching, and they don't like this blunt way.
That's why my book has been a success, because it says goodbye to traditional preaching and returns to the real scene of life. The protagonist of the book, Gray, is a narcissistic, timid, lazy but funny child, not a heroic or all-powerful little protagonist in ordinary books.
Children can see in the book that they are surrounded by nemesis, rivals, and even some aspect of themselves, which makes them feel interesting. Gray is not perfect in the book, but this makes a big feature of the book. Children sometimes feel that they are better than Gray, but they are so similar to the difficulties and troubles encountered by the protagonist in the book.
Gray is mediocre, so mediocre that sometimes I even ask myself: Why do I take such a small fart as the protagonist? How ordinary he is! But it is precisely his ordinary that makes the truth. As a result, everyone waved goodbye to the heroic and perfect protagonist, and began to accept and love these ordinary but real enough characters.
Children aged 12-15 all over the world have a lot of troubles, but not too many people pay attention to and care about their feelings.
The protagonist of the book is the strangest of the children, because he is neither the oldest nor the youngest: the biggest you can pretend to be mature, the smallest you will get a lot of love, so you will suffer me as a "middleman" who can't go up and down. Growing up will have a lot of conflicts with them, and many stories and experiences are reflected in the little ass Gray.
This is what "The Little Ass Diaries" hopes to reflect: no one stipulates what a 12-15-year-old junior high school student should be, and we tolerate the character of this group and treat some of the strange remarks that this group occasionally jumps out.
It may be said that my current job is computer programming, being a geek in the IT world, and a side job is writing bestsellers, which is a geek in the text world.
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