I’ve been using Windows Live Writer for my blogging. Never did a big assessment or anything, I just kind of ended up with it. Now, I’m wondering if there is something better. This theme uses the “excerpt” field otherwise it just keeps the first x number of characters as the excerpt. I don’t see where to do the excerpt in Live Writer. I’ll check the help files, but I seem to remember being able to do something like that with BlogDesk.
Keep plugging away.