Writer with an oddball description of peaceful times? (8)
I believe the answer is:
interwar
'writer with an oddball description of peaceful times?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'writer with an oddball' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'oddball' indicates anagramming the letters.
'writer' put after 'an' is 'anwriter'.
'anwriter' is an anagram of 'INTERWAR'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for interwar that I've seen is " within conflict bounds".)