Darkly brooding writer bored by year working (7)
I believe the answer is:
byronic
'darkly brooding writer bored by year working' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'writer bored by year working' is the wordplay.
'writer' becomes 'bic' (kind of pen).
'bored by' indicates putting letters inside (to bore something can mean to drill into it).
'year' becomes 'yr' (abbreviation).
'working' becomes 'on' (on can mean working or activated).
'yr'+'on'='yron'
'bic' enclosing 'yron' is 'BYRONIC'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for byronic that I've seen before include "Dark, mysterious, moody" , "Darkly romantic" , "Poet's" , "mad, bad, and dangerous to know?" , "Highly romantic" .)