Microsoft really hit the ball out of the park with WLW (Windows Live Writer).  It is hard imaging running a blog without it.  Now that SubText blogging software and BlogEngine.net both fully support WLW.

Today I ran I got a message that the version of WLW I am using (the tech preview) will end in October.  While browsing to see if there was an updated version yet, I ran unto the following blog:

http://www.live-writer.net/

It has quite a few more plug-ins listed, although most of them are not have the great of importance to me, but they might for you.  Diffidently a site to subscribe to their feed!