A Writers Toolbox

   Stephen King empathizes a writers' need for the proper Toolbox in his book "On Writing." In King's mind lies the uber Toolbox, with a compartment for every writing tool imaginable.  A glimpse into one compartment marked section 4 reads the bold face words:  "With a hammer he killed Frank will ever replace He killed Frank with a hammer."
It is strange that two sentences which have so much in common spark different mental pictures.  In the first sentence we read the prepositional phrase with a hammer and in our minds mentally pick the hammer up before we read that he killed Frank.  That sentence stimulates the mind, whereas He killed Frank with a hammer requires no mental action from the reader.  Frank is dead, it's too late for him and we know this.