Hey man, you're on the right track. A few suggestions if you don't mind: Quality of sleep >>>>> dreaming >>>>> [your method for producing lucid dreams]. I think of lucid dreaming as a product of time spent dreaming. The more time we spend in a dream the higher the odds of getting lucid. Why? It is likely you'll run up to that dream sign you've been preparing for if that's what you do, or it is more likely you'll end up relying on your prospective memory at some point in the dream (MILD, reality checks), or it gives you enough time to redirect your awareness until you realize you are dreaming (through meditation or anything else you can do that cultivates awareness). Above all, it lets you see more dreams.

Good quality of sleep ensures we are in a proper state of mind at the bare minimum. If we are to show up on game day let's make sure we are at our best day night when possible. While you can lucid dream at any point in the night, so long as you are dreaming, there are too many things working against you either because you are tired or stressed, or the dream is short and you can barely remember it, or it is not clear enough, you can't or don't want to dream journal too early in the night. Why risk the night on a dream at 2:00 AM when you can have so many more dreams—longer dreams, vivid and clear dreams later in the night—when you are well rested, less stressed, and we know the odds are stacked in our favor? REM stages get longer the more we sleep, once the body has had time to rest. Longer REM stages translate to frequent and longer dreams. I tend to work on the precept that if I get lucid early in the night we take those. Otherwise, no sweat, we roll back to sleep and try again later in the night or early morning. A WBTB after 6-7 hours of sleep is a better window to work with anyway. Even with WILD or WILD-like methods you have a way-out should you fail and slip into a non-lucid dream.