Please choose the correct ending to complete the given sentence: Education and Communications: [header] How to write gothic fiction [title] Choose a time when your story will take place. [step] Decide if your story will take place in the past or present. Many gothic fiction stories take place a century or even further in the past.

Ending1: Choose a time when the plot will flow out of the past. You can do this by deciding on a time in your story where the plot took place (and did take place), or you can take the present and live in it, in fact, for the future. Ending2: [substeps] A story about the past can make supernatural events and strange characters seem more real to your readers. Or, you can write in the present but include lots of elements that hearken back to an older time. Ending3: Check the dates of your stories to be sure that they're good for that time period. [substeps] Traditionally, gothic novels are written for children or for ages around the 1800s or later. Ending4: You will want to pick a time when your high school class has fallen asleep and your parents are not in the room. If possible, try to find a place after your school week to sit down and write a gothic tale.

Answer format: ending1/ending2/ending3/ending4