Nope, I've actually given up (mostly) on the affiliate programs. Since HubPages has started paying us for page hits, I just go by that. I plan on making good money when I've published a few hundred hubs.
Long way to go, but the money is perpetual.
I have not seen nor met anyone that has been so successful with affiliate marketing program to the extent of making over $1,ooo a week.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but you'll need to promote a whole lot of marketing products so that when they all add up you can have a sizeable income.
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.