Image by Negative Space via Pexels By JOHN E. BIALAS I'm LinkedIn loopy. The feeling is from spending hours on the site looking at the posts of copy-editing and proofreading proprietors and somehow believing I could start my own copy-editing and proofreading business for helping writers. I planned to run it on this blog, of all places, as a home-based sole proprietorship. Call the business Put This Editor to Work. Services offered: editing, proofreading Genre: nonfiction Main areas of expertise: memoirs, business books, newsletters, blog posts Then I ran into reality when I read articles about how to launch a copy-editing or proofreading business. It turns out that too much business is involved. You have to form a legal entity. You have to register for taxes. You have to open a business bank account and apply for a business credit card. You have to set up accounting for your