This writer against himself for the moment? (8)
I believe the answer is:
meantime
'the moment?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to time as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'this writer against himself' is the wordplay.
'this writer' becomes 'me' (the person who is writing these clues).
'against' becomes 'anti' (prefix meaning against).
'himself' becomes 'me' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'me'+'anti'+'me'='MEANTIME'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for meantime that I've seen before include "interval" , "interim?" , "For the moment" , "Intervening period" .)