This is the beauty of the world now you have your very own network to distribute your talents and brand yourself. Write hubs and blogs and tweets and videos and social network yourself and ning and friendster yourself! BAM!
If you have the talent don't keep it by yourself exposed it to the world why don't you join some contest that appropriate to your ability then people recognized and judged you wither you have the potential or haven't.
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.