One of the biggest problems of social impact storytelling, in my opinion, is that it often assigns the exact same personality to all of its subjects.
Kind and sympathetic.
Hardworking but docile.
Struggling and virtuous.
And, sure, those traits are common. But man, the village has way more personality than that! There’s sass and eagerness and playfulness and stubbornness and all of it.
Storytellers, what are you doing to make sure your subjects don’t get a generic wash.