confection
She is confecting a problem that doesn't exist.
My suspicion is that the journalists who are confecting outrage about this don't really care at all.
He struggled to confect an excuse for the actions of his men.
The writer turns the traditional Cinderella narrative on its head, confecting a story in which the wicked stepmother takes over and the bad guys win the day.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Creating and producing
anti-creative
artefact
attribute
attribute something to someone
bang something out
bash
crank
generativity
grind something out
handmade
knock
knock off (something)
rig
roll (something) out
rollout
run something up
rush something out
sand-cast
stitch
yield