But it is also possible that the author simply invented one.

I at first believed that you had simply invented the story.

Since some of the sales agents were paid a commission for every new account, they simply invented them.

I knew how to trample my way through most any situation, but you can't simply invent a person's medical history.

Sometimes I think history was invented simply to record war, and before records, there were oral traditions.

Instead, medical tests were rigged - and at times, patients simply invented.

If it's the first type of series, you simply invent a new problem for your permanent protagonist.

The siglas were not simply invented, but passed on through generations.

When he couldn't find any- thing to be twisted, he simply invented things.

And there's always the option of reshaping or simply inventing words.