Writing enables individuals to reason in or with language: metalanguage (Ravid y Tolchinsky, 2002). This ability requires both linguistic knowledge and cognitive abilities, so it can develop accordingly. One of the pivotal components of cognition is the capacity to reason in an analogical way (Goswami y Brown, 1990). The purpose of this paper is research into the potential relation between both variables: text production and analogical reasoning. To that purpose, two objectives have been pursued: (a) to inquire into the verbal analogical reasoning as a cognitive ability essential to the writing of narrative texts; and (b) to determine the incidence of this ability in the metalanguage level. A group of 258 third graders were studied to establish a correlation between their analogical reasoning and their production of narrative texts. A writing test and verbal analogical reasoning tests were administered. Preliminary findings indicate that there is a correlation between both variables; however, it can be observed that some writing-specific areas seem to depend more on other kinds of knowledge than on uniquely the verbal analogical reasoning.