First try to get some experience by offering your services for free to your friends or contacts that need proofreading and editing work. Use those completed projects as experience on your CV. The functional type CV is best for freelance work as it enables you to group the completed projects in relevant categories.
If you apply for a specific job, find out what the requirements are and adapt your objective section and profile to the job description. 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.