This happens to me quite often. As soon as you mention that you work from home, or that you do freelance work - of any kind - the assumption is made that you can just drop everything. My wife even does it!
While freelancers may not work 9-5 every day, it doesn't mean we have total flexibility. We are often up against deadlines, or working hard to find that next good paying project. I don't know about everyone else, but my average work day starts very early in the morning and typically ends when I decide it's finally time for bed.
Sometimes, when people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I'm a trophy husband!
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.