Many composers pour over melody but often times not in the way you're thinking. It's pretty common in pop and rock that the melody "writes itself" meaning the melody naturally settles into the chords. That doesn't mean it's easy ​to write a melody just that it's often the sum of it's parts.

Happy November! In my last post (this will be two posts in one week) I talked about planing chords and there's just too much to talk about there so we're diving right back in.