Hello Dreamviews community!

I have just joined the site and wanted to introduce myself as well as ask some basic questions.

I've been reading about lucid dreaming for about a week now and have become extremely interested (and further motivated by just seeing Inception!). My dream recall is pretty decent, most nights since I've started reading up I've been able to remember at least one dream and walk through it again in the shower the next morning.

I was wondering if someone could either lay out for me (or point me to a generic guide) that lays out the general steps to becoming a skilled lucid dreamer. Is it dream recall -> reality checking -> lucid dreaming or something? And I've seen like a million different techniques for lucid dream induction, WILD? MILD? DILD? Where does reality checking fit in? I've read about that but can't seem to do it in my dreams?

That ended up being longer than I expected, TL;DR:

What steps does one take to be a lucid dreamer?

Thanks in advance!