a beautiful setting and a gorgeous man do not a good story make. together, alone, they are a skeleton. the bones of life minus the meat. a beautiful setting, a backdrop of greens and blues is aesthetically pleasing but emotionless. passion does not lie solely in architecture, in swatches of nature. alone, it provides the outline to your story. and the gorgeous man is but only a single player. interesting for only so long. interesting until he's not.

good stories are comprised of more. dialogue, complex characters, motive, emotion, passion. extreme love, lust, desire, hate, disgust. a story worthy of your time runs the gamut. making you sad, so you appreciate happiness. causing heartache to highlight the heartsmiles.

a beautiful setting and a gorgeous man are but two parts to a greater whole. two bones in the skeleton. a colorful backdrop plus one character can only take you so far. not far. not far enough. one man can only provide you with so much. one facet of everything your good story, your great and complete story, needs. life can not be lived like a static character. unmoving, unchanging.

a good story deserves beautiful settings and a gorgeously good to you, good for you, cast. you were born to live in settings too beautiful for words with people who take your breath away.

don't waste that breath on just anything.