Live Writer: Save Draft Online
Live Writer is easy to use/setup, and (I believe) lets me produce better blog posts by cutting out the hassle of wrestling with formatting, picture placement, picture effects, uploading, and so on that is often associated with web-based editors. As good as TinyMCE is, it just doesn’t cut it compared to a ‘fat/rich’ desktop client (particularly when you start throwing plugins in!)
That being said, there was one feature that was making me lean towards heading all online – saving drafts to my blog so that I can edit posts no matter where I am, with either Live Writer or with WordPress’ Editor. As it turns out, however, the clever Live Writer team have already included that functionality, I was just too engrossed in producing wonderful blog posts (I’ll use that as my excuse instead of just saying “because I was too stupid to look”), but Will was kind enough to point it out to me.
To save online, hit “Post Draft…”
And to retrieve blogs stored online to edit, hit Open, navigate to your Blog and pick whichever post/draft you want to edit
