At 18 years old, I knew that I enjoyed writing and I knew that I enjoyed talking about sports. Sure, timing is everything – but I often wonder how my life would’ve progressed if I’d started binding my poems together in the 10th grade. I wonder what would have happened had I recorded my sports commentary the mornings after big Cowboys victories.

Somewhere in my early 20s I became fond of what a camera and a photographer’s eye could accomplish. So there you have it, me in a nutshell: She writes and She shoots.

The Write One Incorporated was created with the young and innovative girl in mind. Maybe your basketball dreams were squelched like mine when you finally realized that the WNBA would never pay you 1/100th of what the NBA would one day pay your male classmates. You realize that not everything about the world works in your favor, but you still want to be a success and inspire other young women.

Our objective is simple: we want our girls to have established businesses, be published authors and have developed crafts when you go off to college. We want you to graduate from college and already have something going for you, so that the pretty degree doesn’t just sit on the wall while you attempt to figure out your next move.

The absolute worst thing a young woman can experience is the stress associated with not knowing where her financial security and livelihood will come from. Start a business now. Change it later if you must. But have something to build on now. Figure out what it is you enjoy more than anything now and together let’s figure out how to get someone to pay you for it.

Maybe the pen is your mighty sword. Let’s register your sitcom treatment today. Perhaps you have recorded a documentary of your southern sector neighborhood on your smart phone. Let’s pair you with an industry expert, fine tune your video clips and then start your YouTube channel.

The world is your canvas. I want you to be busy with you. Be informed of the happenings in the world, but let’s mold you into the best you possible. This way you’ll stand strong in the face of all of the opposition that the world has to offer.

Writing is probably more important to me than it is to most people, but there is value in the pen that I won’t let you forget. Some of us have larger voices than others.

We all have opinions and perspectives, but what do those things matter if we can’t go into a corner and articulate our feelings on paper? Writing is the root of The Write One Incorporated because I believe that all of our hopes, dreams and aspirations begin to flourish once we write them down.

Allow me to pull the writer out of you. The act is therapeutic. It can heal. Write down on paper what you want out of this life. Take a picture on your paper with words. See what you feel and then try your very best to explain it to the world. Some will get it. Others will be confused, but the confusion is what often excites the masses.

Be great.

-Ariawna “Ari” Talton - Founder/President