She might have been talking about made-up storybook characters, not her own personal tragedy.

No, that's actually 'a fire,' not a totally made-up character.

He often wrote articles and produced radio dramas in the form of dialogues between made-up characters.

I think he is just a made-up character.

A lot of new, fictional detail - and one largely made-up character - takes its place.

But three of the stories are hypothetical (including a silly one involving made-up characters in an online computer game).

Why should we read the dull parts in the life of a made-up character?

Maybe that was why she preferred made-up characters to the real thing.

I used made-up characters, and they told me my work had inappropriate political meaning, something about a code for political secrets.

The funeral is for a new made-up character, Lardella, who drowned at sea.