This paper focuses on the meaning of different forms of writing in research that aims to understand, explore, document and analyze individual's experiences of their everyday places and spaces. Writing is often viewed as a traditional means of reporting that fails to deal with the sensuous and abstract aspects of experience. In this paper it is argued that if writing practices are recognized as acts of knowledge production closely connected to the subjective and sensuous experiences of the writer it becomes possible to use writing as a powerful tool for understanding a wide variety of aspects that influence and interact with the interplay between humans and their spaces and places. Writing is discussed both in terms of being a primary method on the field as well as in terms of producing academic texts. A main argument of the paper is that experiences are most easily understood through narratives. It is through narratives that temporal worlds are understood and becomes interpretable. There are intense and intertwining links between experience, mind, body, knowledge production and writing that traditional academic writing practices often underestimate or ignore. These links provide academics with the potential of finding a space between methodologies, epistemologies and writing practices where it is possible to create and communicate narratives that combines the creative with the critical. Finally, it is argued that in order to fully recognize the potential of writing within academia it is necessary with a broader acceptance of alternate academic texts as this provides possibilities to examine fields of experiences that traditionally have been closed for investigation.