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Melody Writing Over Chords
It depends what kind of melody you're writing over the chords. If you're writing pop music, then you can just write the first, third and or fifth note of each chord at the beginning of each measure that has a new chord in it.
Then you can use those as targets notes and or beginning notes for your melody. If you're writing for jazz then you'll need to use the third or the seventh of the chords as guide tones in many cases.
It's possible to start a chord on a non chord tone in the melody but then you have to give it special treatment and eventually resolve to a chord tone.
They create suspensions which are popular in rock and pop especially, though they occur elsewhere as well. Good luck.
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