This from an interview with James Kahn (author of the ROTJ novelization) in the latest SW Insider magazine:
You also wrote a backstory for Leia, which didn’t make the novel. Can you describe what you had in mind?
The box containing the background I wrote for Leia must have gotten lost in one of my many moves over the years. It was mostly about growing up in a politically active and artistic family, with lots of heated conversations around the dinner table about politics and art, watching the Empire growing increasingly destructive, getting radicalized when one of her friends disappeared at the hands of the Empire, then going to secret rebel cell meetings. I do have a copy of a three-page joke chapter titled Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jedi, done to explore the kinds of writing she might have done in high school, written satirically in the mode of James Joyce. I got no comment on that one either.
The same issue of SW Insider reprints Kahn’s typewritten pages of this chapter (actually only two). Kahn describes it elsehwere in the interview as “a satiric Leia ‘found journal’ a la James Joyce.”
Here’s a transcript. (All typoes are in the original.)
PROLOGUE
From the Journal of Leia Organa, Princess of Alderaan
I saw him wander from the mouth of the falcon like one of the priests who used to give me sacrament on alderaan as if wasn’t there an angel following or a devil or some other god knows what who would give meaning to my every step but not haughty like only simple if something simple ever there was to meaning if you take my meaning or take whatever you may my darkling solo mio one and only lonely wanderer from well the deepest well to hell to far corell where banthas jawas flowers and the devil knows who else from all the ends of the galaxy know the soloist soloest soloist who ever came to me if come you can but then you looked at me and then you winked and all the force was in the wink as if your pulsing solo like the muscular blind eye of some anemone from endor winkd and squirted with the force of all your being even would being scented as you were with sweat and hair and jessamine and spice like the girls of what vague species near the moorish wall of sandy dry mon eisley where i saw you first in vision squinting through the force of which i was such part though little well I knew it saw you there so first emerging from the falcons mouth with trailing wookiee as if the tired bird had traveled from far from priestly errands in a dry and windless temple only to cough out this meager message just to me this blond and solo coded secret over lightspeed wavelength for only me to see and hear i saw you there and asked you with my spirit well as well i asked you as another and my inner eyes beseeched this one and solo asking him and with my force i asked and knew would force and then he asked me would i force and in that hyper space i put my arms around him and drew him down to me so he could feel my comlink all perfume force and his heart was going like mad and force i said force i will force.
On the surface this seems like a short story about Leia being in lust with Han. But the phrase “blond and solo coded secret” suggests there may be something rather less innocuous (and more Wagnerian?) at work here.
In the same vein (ha!) the Insider article provides examples of the reference photos which Lucasfilm gave Kahn as he was writing the novelization: one of Lando in his skiff guard disguise from Jabba’s palce, and anoter of Luke in black Jedi attire.