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Alright since you don't seem to have any experience at all, I'm gonna go ahead and teach you some basics.
Firstly, twigs aren't proper fire wood, you shouldn't use dead twigs and branches from the ground, ESPECIALLY not in the winter.
The only way to get good fire wood in the winter is to chop up something bigger, find a tree that that has fallen, something that is at least 10cm in diameter, carve a bit with your knife in it to check if it's rotten or too fresh. It shouldn't be soft or have the smell of living wood.
Now use a saw to cut yourself up a couple of pieces, perhaps a foot long. Split the pieces with your axe or with your knife if you're an edgy survivalist faggot (I dearly hope you're not).
The key to a good fire is preparation. I generally spend 15 minutes minimum at constructing a fire before igniting it.
stack you firewood like in the pic, doesn't have to be that tall tho, and put all your tinder inside the structure, finish it off by putting some really thin pieces of firewood on top of the structure.
