It gives you the freedom to think and make up things.
Frankly, she couldn't figure out what might have happened next and was not the sort to make things up.
And of course this lot are just making things up as they go along.
But from this point on he would not be making things up.
"Like making up things so you can talk your way out of a bad situation."
Was he the coaches son or am I making things up?
"Are you the kind of person who would lie or make things up to protect him?"
"Because I know this woman, and she makes things up."
You don't make things up and put them in the paper.
"It'll be a matter of making things up as we go along."