Gaffer Tape said:
You really need to pick up The Secret History of Star Wars. None of that seems to mesh with the actual history of the drafts that he wrote as far as I know. One of his scripts had a few action sequences that ended up being scrapped and the ported over to the sequels (like asteroid chase and wookiee/ewok planet) but the stories themselves weren't there.

I'll be getting that book too. That bit about the scripts not having much extra stuff is mentioned on wikipedia. But with a 400-hundred page script how did he manage to have only the story of the first film, the asteroid thing and the wookie thing? In four hundred pages you'd think he'd have more material than that.

That notebook question is a big question, though, because it's a claim to have had the basic story of the prequels and the OT on paper back in the 70s.