Talent is essential as well as dedication and hard work. Don’t expect success but work hard towards it. Try to make each piece your best.
Also, watch how you treat people and your job, make your deadlines and don’t think you are God’s gift to art because there’s always going to be somebody better than you. After all…we aren’t curing cancer. More.
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.