> I would like information from the list on how you go about planting your
> letterboxes..mainly, how and when do you write your clues? Do you plant
> first, then figure out your clues, or ???

I decide strategically what I want to do, and what approach I want to
take.

Then I get to know the area and decide where I want the thing to be,
in keeping with the general approach.

Then, almost without fail, I work backward from the hiding place to
the starting place, noting features, and using features that will work
well in the prose of the general approach. More often than not, the
features will alter the general approach, so it is an iterative
process.

Then I fill in the text of the clue.

Then, if it is local to where I am, I vet the completed clue by starting
at the starting place and going to the hiding place, and check off each
word and each feature, and look for things that can genuinely be
misconstrued, both in the text, and in the terrain.

Then I put the clue on my web site.

Then I post a link to the clue to this list.

The webmasters then link to it.

This is just one way to do it. There are other, prolly simpler,
and better ways. I do know that the webmasters would prefer if
we all maintained our own clue pages, so their job of simply linking
to them rather than converting and publishing them would be easier.
If you don't have the resources to do this, then posting the clue
to the list is what usually happens. This allows the webmasters
to be slow or link to the archive until they have time to republish
the clue. The webmasters prefer if the county is specified, unless it
is a mystery clue.

> Lastly, are there any no-no's about planting letterboxes in areas that
> require admission?

The fact that admission is charged, IMO, does not present a no-no
above and beyond any other no-nos that may be associated with the
location.

HTH
Randy