Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged?? and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is?? he??s innocent. Or at least sort of.
The authorities are closing in?? but when a surprise blizzard hits?? the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he??s going to have to face the music?? but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?
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Question: Given all the jobs that you have--game designer fatherhood Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie work etc.--do you have a certain time that you set aside to write?
Kinney: I still treat writing like a hobby working mostly at night and sometimes on weekends. But when a deadline looms my hobby time gets extended into the wee hours of the night. It's not uncommon for me to work until 4:00 a.m. and I'm usually back at work by 9:00 a.m.
Q: Did you get to choose which character you would play in the Wimpy Kid films (Mr. Hills)? What do you enjoy most about working on the movies?
Kinney: I never any real desire to appear in the Wimpy Kid films but one day my wife encouraged me to be an extra in one of the crowd scenes. So I walked onto the set ready to ask the assistant director to put me somewhere in the back. It happened that right at that moment the director was looking for someone to play the role of Mr. Hills Holly Hills's father. What I didn't realize was that I'd be front and center in the church scene?? and in the new movie?? I'm even more prominent. I'm incredibly self-conscious so appearing on-camera was a real stretch for me.
Q: In 2009 Time magazine named you as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World--what??s the first thing you did after you found out?<"
Kinney: I thought it was a practical joke?? so I tried to track down the source of the joke. I eventually reached a voicemail of a reporter who said they worked for Time?? and at that point I thought it was just a well-planned practical joke. It took me a while to realize it was for real. It was a big honor?? but I don't take it very seriously. I'm the fourth most influential person in my own house.
Q: Would you ever consider making Wimpy Kid into a newspaper comic strip or creating another one? Do you have any favorite comic strips that you currently read?
Kinney: I've considered it. I set out to become a newspaper cartoonist but failed to break in. But I like the freedom books give me?? so it would be tough to cram my ideas into three or four panels.
Q: What is (or could be) you motto in life?
Kinney: I was inspired to write by a Benjamin Franklin quote: " done is better than well said." But I always encourage kids to "create something great??"because the tools to cre