The phrase "a first draft for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to any kind of item that needs a draft prepared before the finished product is completed. For example: "I have prepared a first draft for the proposal that I will be presenting next week."
"I suggested the idea to Colm quite early on, before there was even a first draft for the film," Dwyer told Screen.
"I suggested the idea to Colm quite early on, before there was even a first draft for the film," Dwyer told Screen.
Such centralist measures met with the opposition of not only the conservative cantons but also the francophone minority; together they managed to defeat a first draft for an amended constitution in 1872.
In it, his appeal for his subjects' sympathy might almost serve, in part, as a first draft for Prince Charles today as he seeks public acceptance of his relationship with Mrs. ParkerBowles.
It's here that the narrative and many of its more fervent declarations ("I am sick of the Powder Room") now read like a first draft for its author's autobiography, and sometimes even like a fragment of literary criticism.
'At one point, we did think maybe it would be best for him to just go around talking about the opera to audiences and never actually to write it.' But Thomas persevered and, working with the lyricist Stewart Lee, formerly one half of the television comedy duo, Lee and Herring, he created a first draft for a longer workshop performance.
Just over a year ago, I received a first draft of an article for Stanford Medicine magazine that electrified me.
We thank John Stanovik, USDA Forest Service, Newtown Square, USA, for carefully reviewing a first draft of the manuscript and for helpful comments.
This paper presents a first draft of a model for curriculum development designed in the conceptual framework of the hyper- rationalistic pedagogy.
Late last month, the American film-maker Quentin Tarantino finished a first draft of the screenplay for Django Unchained.
The work presented here is a first draft of an encyclopedia for bacteria – host interactions.
