She’s made $420 Million from writing books. Here are Danielle Steel’s daily habits.

Danielle Steel is the most prolific writer alive today. She has published more than 170 books— more than 3 books per year on average — during her 50-year career. This productivity has made her very wealthy. Forbes estimates her net worth to be $420M USD in 2023.

Like any prodigious person, Danielle Steel has a daily routine for writing, and things she does to make sure that each new book she writes becomes a bestseller.

She writes…. a lot

Pretty obvious, right? But what’s unique about Danielle is her ferocious dedication and stamina. Danielle Steel sometimes writes for 20 or more hours at a time. She says this especially occurs in the first month of writing a new book, when she is gripped by laying out the story.

Danielle says she developed a habit of writing late into the night when her children were young, and that was the only time she had to write.

She raised 9 children and was a devoted and present mother. She didn’t let child-rearing (and a rather dramatic personal life) stop her from writing during those years. As her children became adults though, she was able to increase her productivity, churning out 4.5 books on average per year in the past 25 years, compared to 2 per year between…