Everyone is good at somthing now imagine if you where obessesed and practiced and thought about somthing all the time you would get good to remember autistic people at times perseverate. There are few actual savants that can utalize their talents I know a boy who can draw any comic charicter from memory he likes its cool and they are perfect but ask him to draw or alter it a bit and he can not.
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.