If have a blog and do not like using it’s online editor or are tired of dealing with the problems of copying and pasting from Word, then give Windows Live Writer a look.

Live Writer is a free tool which allows you to compose your blog entries, while offline, and then easily upload your entries to your online blog. As you would expect, the typical features, plus a few nice other ones, are available for editing and proofing blog entries, just encapsulated into a desktop application instead of only being available online.

While Live Writer is slanted towards getting you to run your blog on Windows Live, the application is able to upload to other popular services, such as WordPress, Blogger and LiveJournal.