I started out thinking of writing my own PT. Then I got to thinking that, if I was going to re-write the PT, I might as well do my own novelisations of the OOT films. And then I got to thinking that, since I'm re-writing the first two trilogies, I could also write the third of the trilogy of trilogies.
Commander Courage has also had this plan, with a friend, and started work. We have been exchanging ideas. I have also been very interested to get comments from other ot.com members on ideas that have occurred to me and to hear how they have imagined the saga themselves. Some ideas I have, like keeping the droids in throughout, have not been popular with everyone. Others have been.
At the moment, I'm in the process of thrashing out the basic skeleton for the saga. Once that's done, it will be possible to select the nine episodes from the saga to actually write as novels. I will still call the middle three A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi. The PT episodes will get new titles.
Commander Courage, I'm really glad you posted about the possibility of Luke's sister being hidden until the third trilogy. Until I read that, I hadn't even thought of anything so simple and yet effective to allow for the "separation at birth" to stay and to ditch the "Luke & Leia are related." I don't know why I couldn't think of that, but I couldn't...
D'OH!