To test my skills as a writer - On this site we all have an opportunity to write creatively and have the work viewed across the world.
Making money online is easier if you mix things up: blog, hubpages and squidoo is my mix. Other people have other mixes. If you limit yourself to blogging, or hubs, or lenses, you will miss out on a lot of traffic.
Missing out on traffic, means missing out on audience and money.
Yes you are right, posting on blog is much easier for sharing your ideas but many of us is using HubPages as an application for getting money. By using few companies available in 'Affiliate', most of us are taking advantage, so earning money from both ways is much better!
Well, "Hubpages" is easy to use. It is a huge community and you get a lot of traffic from here. The hubbers are helpful and you can learn a lot from them and it also is a bit contest type that makes it more interesting.It is not just money making but earning whilst enjoying the time with fellow hubbers.
Its an opportunity to share what I know and learn what others know, and Hubpages is a great forum for interaction with people from across the globe.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.