I've been in umpty-million songwriters workshop (give or take a few) and the one thing that always strikes me is that people rarely talk about where the melody comes from. They'll (we'll) talk about where the inspiration for the song comes from and maybe a little about how we approached writing the song, taking apart a few lines to talk about how we put them together. But, as far as I can tell, the melody is about 50% of the song. Without the melody, we'd all be writing poetry. (And pretty lousy poetry, if I look at my own lyrics, stripped of the melody.) I believe the reason why people rarely discuss where the melody and chord changes come from is because it is much more intuitive than the lyrics. I find it difficult to talk about the melody, myself.

Anyone in this place what can share their thoughts on creating a melody to a song that they're writing?

Jerry