Read some Edgar Allan Poe - short stories and poetry.
Read - The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
I've been meaning to read it myself. Some consider it a ghost story while others find it even more horrifying.
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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.