"We're all in this together..."

No, I didn't just watch High School Musical.  Although, would I lose "cool points" if I told you I knew every song?  The things you need to keep together are your characters.  Everyone in your book needs to tie up their loose ends.  The only objection to this rule is if you want to end on a cliffhanger or if you plan on writing another book that begins where you left off. 

P.S  I hate strongly dislike books that don't have a solid ending.
I began chapter 19 tonight and I'm currently in the process of making sure Sawyer ties up what she can in the book.  My readers are probably going to be upset with where I leave Vikki and James, but they'll have to read my next one to see how it continues.

 It's funny how we're taught to tie things up at such a young age (shoes, bows, string, neckties, trashbags), but yet when it comes to our personal lives we struggle with the thing we learned to do so early in life.