Hi TravisPierce. Welcome to the forum.
Once you've outlined a melody using chord tones, you can basically use any of the leftover notes, you just need to know how to insert them. Since any chord tone can be linked to another by playing all the notes in between -- in other words, linked chromatically -- you can see how this is just fact. It all becomes just a matter of timing then; those secondary notes need to fill the gaps in the time line between the strong beats that the chord tones occupy.
I've always seen note choices as being a constantly shifting hierarchy: chord tones, then the other scale/mode notes, then the few that are left over, those that live in between scale notes that are at least a whole tone apart.
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