I had wierd behavior having a .pak and my normal mod files, so whenever i generate a .pak i instantly remove it from that folder after upload
Fantastic, thank you. That was indeed the problem. Deleted the newly-made .pak in Documents\Larian Studios\Divinity Original Sin\Mods and no more Read Only issues.
Much better than what I was doing this last hour: editing my StoryEditor code directly through the .txt file, heh.