Whenever possible I prefer to use hinge points. But, before I ever installed one of them I drilled more holes than I could count. All of them practice holes. Get yourself some scrap balsa and practice drilling the holes in that. Make sure you do it on two pieces of wood at a time so you can practice getting the holes to line  as you drill in both sides of the hinge. Keep practicing until you can do an entire hinge line (3-5 hinges) on the first try. THEN do the real thing on your control surface

Ken