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Normal paper is no good, even if perfectly dry it just flash burns with little heat then smoulders and generally fails.
You want the cheapest, thinnest most advert strewn free papers (not with colour ink though). Builds a decent starting fire (better use too much than too little and have to do it twice, which ultimately uses more material), with lots of air.
I find even with vents fully open, its not enough. So for first 5 min I will run with door open, lick turned and then pushed too.. Hopefully the paper lights, them lights the other paper, then burns terrifically hard, which gets the kindling going etc.
Though some days you can be a pure win hard god of fire and it just doesn't happen, this is the winds fault, you get funny back pressure down the pipe and nothing short of an atomic bomb will get it lit.