On Freemane's Mind and the future · 7:42pm Jun 5th, 2015
First of all, thank you everyone who read, favorited, liked or disliked Freemane's Mind!
I am very happy that I started it, and even more so that I managed to finish it.
Freemane's Mind was supposed to be a simple tribute to one of the best series on the Web. Now it's quite a bit longer and has over 500 views - the most of any story I've written. The idea of a short story was over by the time I was finishing Episode One, when I knew I would write another one. And then one more. And more. 21 months and five extra episodes later, I hope I've managed to bring the runaway train to a safe stop. Inevitably, there's the question: Why stop? The answer is simple.
This story has gone far beyond what I ever intended to write.
Freemane's Mind is a tribute. This isn't really my OC, it's a character - in my mind at least - from Accursed Farms transfered to Equestria. Of course, he can talk, that's one difference. It would be difficult to capture the spirit of the humor with a mute character without walls of exposition. And the setting is different to give Freemane something unique to do. But the mindset behind him is more or less based on Freeman's Mind, or how I thought that character would behave here. And the more I wrote, and the more views the story got, the more I felt like I was no longer paying tribute. I felt the line between that and me outright ripping off the idea behind the series getting thinner with every chapter, even if I never directly copied it, save for a select few quotes for the exact purpose of relating them to the original. An in-your-face easter egg, if you will.
That's one part of the answer. The other one is far too common: I worked at a snail's pace, there's no getting around that. Every update seemed to take longer than the one before it. Part of it is down to the above answer, but I also think having two long stories to work on side-by-side scrambled my concentration. Especially if I wanted to write a one-off or two in between while working and finishing my thesis.
So, what's in store for the future?
Well, there's the Super Secret Cider Squeezy 6000 to finish, but after that I think I'll either stick to one-offs for some time or start a long story that won't be posted until it's done, with shorter ones coming in irregular intervals. Whatever the case, I feel my work here is done, and it's time to work on ideas that are entirely mine. If you don't count MLP in general 
