aimlessly

It'd be pretty hard to set up a blog by pure aimlessness - maybe the million monkeys could manage it - so the real aim is, if you accept that intention and genuineness (genuinity? - no, I don't mean authenticity, at least I don't think I mean authenticity - OK, spell check doesn't like genuinity, which means something) are at least semi-plausible concepts is to try to write something every day for a year. No matter what.

Writer's block - who needs it? There's plenty of wittering in the wild world today, and I'm not charging you to read this lot, so it's not doing much harm. All the trees killed to bring this to you are already dead.

Topics, random. Parentheticals, numerous. Pronouncements, without conviction. Noise, silent.

Mind you, as well as the vaunted aim, I'm hoping for some side effects. Speaking as the world's second worst procrastinator - and you know who you are - I've often managed to get quite a lot done while putting off something else. And with all due respect, if this gets put off while I achieve something else, good luck to me.

Intention, it suddenly seems, it not so simple. I mean, I do honestly intend to write here every day, but I also plan, apparently, to not write here every day. Or at the very least, I'm reckless, about it, in the sense that I can see the possibility of it happening, and I'm quite happy about that. This is a way of channelling the procrastinatory impulse - either it produces this (yay, success) or it produces something else (yay, success). That almost seems like cheating. Boy, spell check really hates me.

I'm kind of sceptical about intention. I would say, we do what we do and we talk about intention afterwards, a kind of watered down free will. Or we confuse it with fantasy, some mental configuration of the present or past which places itself in the future.

Perhaps I can narrow it down a bit by saying intention is a mental configuration now, which refers to the future - a future - and simultaneously expresses an opinion that that particular future is preferable to some, or all, other futures. A positively-weighted image of the future; well, OK. That doesn't end the problems, mind you. But it'll do for now.