As Microsoft recently released Windows Live Essentials 2011, have you installed Live Writer included in it which offers automatic recovery of posts and with ribbon UI similar to Microsoft Word’s here is complete list of keyboard shortcuts for Windows Live Writer 2011 for productivity as well as time saving.
Windows Live Writer 2011 keyboard shortcuts
Though these shortcuts are compiled by live writer team for live writer beta version, there aren’t many changes in final version of live writer in UI and other features.