As a writer, it is very rewarding to know that someone is reading your work. We scramble around and try to get published and get those "letters." Here we get that reinforcement we need and it is very rewarding to know we have an audience.
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.