Can you construct a future-continuous verb tense?


I wanted to say "I'll be logged into Skype every night." So, I said 「毎夜、Skypeと
**つながっている** つもりです。」 But now I am thinking maybe the verb tense should have
been 「毎夜、Skypeと **つながる** つもりです。」

My sense is that「 毎夜、Skypeとつながっているつもりです。」 means (1) shift forward to each
evening, and then state what I will be doing at that time in the continuous
tense.

I sense that 「毎夜、Skypeとつながるつもりです。」 means (1) shift forward to each morning or
afternoon, (2) state with the future tense (つながる) what I will be doing even
later on that day in the evening (be on Skype). So, this feels like a double
future. Does that make sense?

In summary, once "つもり" shifts the context into the future, can you use the
continuous verb tense?




First 毎夜 isn't so common. 毎晩２３時ごろ or some such would be must more common.
Second, つながっている is not continuous, but rather perfect aspect (completed action
where the effect or state continues into the present).

If you want to strongly establish a future context, why not use something like
これから or 来週 or some such? つもり talks about your intent or plans for some future
time and sounds a little strange here IMO; maybe not wrong, but just not
usual?

If you mean that until some specific future time point you will not have been
connected to Skype, but from now on you're planning to be connected every
night, you could say something like:

これからは毎晩ずっとSkypeとつながってることにした。  

> I've decided that from now on I'll be connected to Skype all night every
> night.

