Good tips.
I presume you use only one sheet of newspaper, how many times (how thick) around do you wrap? If you wrap more than once around, is it a loose wrap?
I just use one side of the newspaper (so half of the foldout). It wraps a few times around a roll and then I twist tie the ends. Have your kindling ready though. It doesn’t last very long. Hubby likes to add more newspaper scrunched around it, which is fine. We have different ways of building fires, and each one is unique to the wood we have available.
Oh, and I would say it’s neither loose nor tight. Just roll up the tube with it and then twist those ends, again not necessarily tightly, but enough to give it shape and stay.