Oddly enough, it does count your own pageviews too. It will however even out when your hub is published eventually. One thing I do notice too is that the longer you keep the hub unpublished, the higher the score is.
Hope it helps.
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.