I have known lucid dreaming for about a year now, but i havent made much progress

I have TRYED to Do DILD, as everyone said It should be the entrance to lucid dreaming, so I did over 10 RC/day, and wrote down a couple of dreams for a week, but I didnt have any lucid dreams, so I gave up. This was about a year ago

So now I want to lucid dream desperately, but I dont plan on using DILD, i plan on using WILD. So my question is do i still have to write down dreams and perform reality checks daily, or i dont need to do these as they may not be required for WILD?