It's a great little one-shot that is much better than my story at making Cinch seem sympathetic, which was my original goal with my story before I got sidetracked and shifted the focus. 
So, as promised, mah plans! · 8:27pm Sep 24th, 2016
To be honest, for a couple days I just forgot that I was going to make this blog post 
Aaaanyway. "Infected With Your Magic" ended on a sequel hook, and I do already have the basis of Cinch's next adventure (a proper adventure this time - returning to Equestria) in my head, but it's not as clear as the first two stories, so I'll need some time to sit on it.
In the meantime, I'll be writing two other stories. I can't say if I'll do one first and then another or if they'll be running parallel. We'll see how it goes.
The first story will take place during "Infected With Your Magic", but be told from the perspectives of eight characters: the Shadow Five and the three sirens. I've got the whole thing planned already. It'll be about the sirens' struggles to properly fit in at Crystal Prep. It'll be a tad darker in tone than my Cinch stories. I hope my takes on the characters will be interesting. Especially the Shadow Five, because nearly everyone has their own version of them. Naturally, I do too.
The second story is completely unrelated to everything else. There's a novel by one of my favorite Russian authors, Gogol, called "Dead Souls". Among its TV adaptations there is an utterly amazing mini-series called "The Case of Dead Souls". I really, really wanna try adapting it into FiM, and I have a lot of things already figured out. It'll be an "alternate universe" kind of story where Equestria is more glum than we're used to and a few things went differently from the show. Starlight Glimmer and Sunset Shimmer will both be involved, but the protagonist will be Twilight, naturally.
So there we go. Also, if anyone would like to help with proofreading and editing, I would love some support. I'm not going to keep pestering Viconaut, what with how busy he is nowadays, and I want to think I've learned enough from him to write competently enough on my own, but I'll happily accept any help. My problems tend to be more metaphysical things like pacing, tone, psychological consistency, showing and not telling, etc.
…But why Dead Souls and not The Government Inspector?… :)
I won’t volunteer for proofreading, as I am hardly suited for this sort of thing, but I would be certainly happy to discuss worldbuilding details.
4226002 Hah! Good to see another Gogol appreciater. Well, my friend, the TV mini-series that I'll be adapting has a pretty healthy dose of "The Government Inspector" (god that's a weird way to call it compared to what I'm used to in russian). In the series, there was some sort of investigator sent into the town around which Dead Souls was set, and the investigator was trying to follow Chichikov's trail, while being continuously corrupted by the, well, corrupt officials straight out of "TGI". My story, if all goes well, will have a bit of that as well, though I'm reserving the mane5 for the "Dead Souls" characters. I'm also substituting the actual dead souls from the novel with something different. And I'll most likely add a bunch of my own stuff in the same style. We'll see how it works.
Anyway, not surprising to find out that such an idea has already existed. Gogol rules!
Speaking of worldbuilding details, I might just shoot you a PM when I actually get enough written. Or a bit before that. I've got the themes and characters more or less figured, but I wouldn't mind an opinion from someone who knows the source materials!
Looking forward to any "infected with your magic" continuations! Good luck with the other story as well.
4262455 Thanks!