The present research examined patterns of metaphor production in autobiographical and nonautobiographical creative writing contexts by experienced and novice writers. Subjects wrote brief descriptions of feelings and actions related to intensely emotional experiences. Support was obtained for the hypothesis that more experienced writers would display consistent patterns of figurative language production while novice writers would dipper in their production of metaphorical language as a function of writing context. Support was also obtained for the generalizability of previous findings on verbal metaphor production to the writing domain—but only for novice writers.