Help setting stroke placement to surface

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I can’t seem to solve this myself. I’m trying to have the surface placement(draw_mode) set to SURFACE for the active greasepencil after session starts or if possible, before.

def modal(self,context,event):
        self.count +=1
        actObj = bpy.context.active_object
        
        if self.count == 1:
            actObj.select = False

            bpy.ops.gpencil.draw('INVOKE_DEFAULT',mode ="DRAW",)
            bpy.data.grease_pencil.draw_mode = 'SURFACE'

        if event.type in {'RET', 'NUMPAD_ENTER'}:
            #do something
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does anyone understand what I mean?