How to Build a Proper Fire

Today I did a lot of research on how to start and maintain a fire. Although it doesn't seem like something that would be very difficult, in unideal conditions, such as rain, wind or snow,  it can be quite hard. In order to successfully build a fire, there is a specific sequence of how to do so.

1. Collect tinder and make a tinder bundle. Tinder is anything that burns fast and catches easily. This can be wood shavings, dry shrubbery, cattails, cedar bark, leaves or dry grass.
2. After the tinder catches, you must add pencil lead sized pieces, which are small grass and twigs, just slightly larger than the tinder.
3. Progressively collect and add larger sized pieces of wood. The best wood is dead branches that are still attached to the tree and not rotten. The branch should make a clean snapping sound when it is broken from the tree.
4. Now that the wood is collected, you must prepare the ground for the fire. If the ground is wet, you will need to make a platform of branches which will ward off moisture.
5. Light the small bundle of tinder, then immediately proceed to adding the twiggy pencil lead sized pieces, then the kindling and so on.