first draft

77 Moby Thesaurus words for "first draft":
      acid test, article, assay, autograph, blank determination,
      brainchild, brouillon, composition, computer printout, copy,
      criterion, crucial test, crucible, determination, docimasy,
      document, draft, edited version, engrossment, essay, fair copy,
      feeling out, fiction, final draft, finished version, flimsy,
      holograph, kiteflying, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact,
      literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter,
      nonfiction, opus, ordeal, original, paper, parchment, penscript,
      piece, piece of writing, play, poem, printed matter, printout,
      probation, production, proof, reading matter, recension,
      rough draft, rough sketch, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll,
      second draft, sounding out, standard, test, test case,
      the written word, touchstone, transcript, transcription, trial,
      try, typescript, verification, version, work, writing